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Ostrich
Struthio camelus
species of Struthionidae


img. 1312 © Jo Kuyken

img. 1313 © Jo Kuyken

country allocations

extant

Algeria · Angola · Australia · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Djibouti · Egypt · Eritrea · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Kenya · Mali · Mauritania · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Senegal · South Africa · South Sudan · Sudan · Tanzania, United Republic of · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe ·

extinct post-1500

Libya ·
source: IUCN 2025. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2025-1 <www.iucnredlist.org>
assessment data: |

Ostriches

conservation status

  • CITES
    appendix 1
  • Regulation (EG) Nr. 865/2006
    appendix A
  • German Federal Nature Conservation Act §44
    strictly protected