🐦Hoatzin
الهُزَّان نوع من أنواع الطيور الاستوائية التي تعيش في المستنقعات والغابات النهرية والمنجروف في الأمازون ودلتا أورينوكو في أمريكا الجنوبية. وهي تتميز بأن صغارها تمتلك مخالب في اثنين من أصابعها الموجودة في أجنحتها. وهذا النوع هو العضو الوحيد في جنسه (Opisthocomus الذي يعني باليونانية القديمة خلفي القنزعة والذي يعد بدوره الجنس الموجود في فصيلة خلفيات القنزعة. ولقد أثير الكثير من الجدل حول الوضع التصنيفي لهذه العائلة، ولم يتم التوصل إلى حل لهذا الجدل حتى الآن.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 0.7 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Hoatzin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.7 kgAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tail length0.29 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.32 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatRiverineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.7 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 Hoatzin yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderOpisthocomiformes
- ›familyOpisthocomidae
- ›genusOpisthocomus
- ›speciesOpisthocomus hoazin
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOpisthocomiformes
- familyOpisthocomidae
- genusOpisthocomus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOpisthocomiformes
- familyOpisthocomidae
- genusOpisthocomus
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