🦩 American flamingo vs Ostrich 🐦
The ostrich is about twice as tall as the American flamingo. The ostrich weighs about 40 times as much as the American flamingo.
| Row | 🦩 American flamingo | 🐦 Ostrich |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the American flamingo yet. | no checked number yet | 43 mph69 km/h1 |
| Weight The ostrich weighs about 40 times as much as the American flamingo. | 4 to 7.9 lb1.8 to 3.6 kg2 | 198 to 300 lb90 to 136 kg1 |
| Lives The American flamingo usually lives about one and a half times as long as the ostrich. | 40 to 60 years40 to 60 years2 | 30 to 40 years30 to 40 years1 |
| Eats Both eat plants and animals. | tiny shrimp, small snails and algae from shallow water | seeds, grass, leaves, flowers and insects |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | shallow lagoons and salty lakes around the Caribbean, in Florida, Mexico and northern South America | the savannas and dry plains of Africa |
Which one? American flamingo or ostrich
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the American flamingo yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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Where these numbers come from
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, Ostrich, checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, checked 30 October 2026.