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Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo) (28913995607)🦅

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SpeciesFalconiformesFalconidae
Birds

🦅Eurasian Hobby

Falco subbuteo Linnaeus, 1758

شويهين أوراسي أو صُقَيْر شمالي أو كَوْنَج أو زُمَّج أو زُمَّاج (الاسم العلمي: Falco subbuteo)، هو صقر صغير ونحيف ينتمي إلى مجموعة متماسكة من الصقور المتشابهة، وغالبا ما تُعتبر من جنيس الشويهين (Hypotriorchis).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
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≈ 1/300th of your weight
Also called
Hobby, European Hobby
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.21 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Hobby

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.21 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male182 kgWikidataQ25876
  • Female241 kgWikidataQ25876

Figures vary

  • 0.21 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.13 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.26 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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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 Eurasian Hobby yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderFalconiformes
  5. ›familyFalconidae
  6. ›genusFalco
  7. ›speciesFalco subbuteo
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderFalconiformes
  3. familyFalconidae
  4. genusFalco
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderFalconiformes
  11. familyFalconidae
  12. genusFalco
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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Common Kestrel — last shared an ancestor ≈ 14 million years ago.
In other languages
lärkfalk (sv), Falco subbuteo (it), чеглок (ru), Boomvalk (nl), Falcó mostatxut europeu (ca), ostříž lesní (cs) … and 27 more languages
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