Common ostrich: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common ostrich lives – recorded in 8 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Struthio camelus
Group	Ostriches, emus, kiwis & rheas
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	8 countries
Continents	Africa, Oceania
Mass	1.5 kg (birth weight); 115 kg (male organism, adult weight); 100 kg (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Struthioniformes
Family	Struthionidae

Where does the common ostrich live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common ostrich in 8 countries and territories across Africa and Oceania. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa. In Australia it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a common ostrich?

Wikidata records the following for the common ostrich: mass 1.5 kg (birth weight); 115 kg (male organism, adult weight); 100 kg (female organism, adult weight).

Is the common ostrich endangered?

The common ostrich’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common ostrich?

The common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is a bird in the order Struthioniformes and the family Struthionidae, genus Struthio. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common ostrich

The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain areas of Africa (and historically, Arabia) and is the largest living species of bird. The common ostrich is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus Struthio in the ratite group of birds. The other is the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes), which has been recognised as a distinct species by BirdLife International since 2014, having been previously considered a distinctive subspecies of ostrich.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common ostrich (revision 1380568989), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q17592 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).