🦆Common Eider
العيدر الشائع (الاسم العلمي: Somateria mollissima) (الإنجليزية: Common eider)، هو نوع من الطيور يتبع جنس العيدر ضمن فصيلة البطية من رتبة الإوزيات. يبلغ طول جسمه ما بين 50 إلى 71 سم. تتواجد في السواحل الشمالية والشرقية من أوروبا وأمريكا الشمالية. يألف العيش على الشواطئ والأنهار والمستنقعات، يقتات باللافقاريات والأربيان بالإضافة إلى المواد النباتية، وهو يعشش على الأرض في شقوق بين الحشائش. وللأنثى حضنة واحدة تضع فيها من 3 إلى 10 بيضات، يحضنها الأبوان لمدة تتراوح بين 27 و 28 يوماً، يتمكن الفراخ من مغادرة العش مباشرة بعد فقس البيوض، البطة البالغة لها ريش أسودٌ على الجانبين والبطن والذيل، ولها بقع مخضرة على جانبي الرأس والعنق.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 2.06 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 38 years
Everything we know about the Common Eider
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.06 kgrecord 2.07 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male2.22 kgWikidataQ26696
- Female1.92 kgWikidataQ26696
Figures vary
- 2.13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Wing length0.28 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Tarsus length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan38 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation28 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatMarineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l2.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Common Eider yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAnseriformes
- ›familyAnatidae
- ›genusSomateria
- ›speciesSomateria mollissima
- classBirds · Aves
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- familyAnatidae
- genusSomateria
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- familyAnatidae
- genusSomateria
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