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Haematopus ostralegus He🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesHaematopodidae
Birds

🐦Eurasian Oystercatcher

Haematopus ostralegus Linnaeus, 1758

Стридоядът (Haematopus ostralegus) е птица от семейство Стридоядови. Среща се и в България.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/120th of your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

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

Everything we know about the Eurasian Oystercatcher

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
43 years
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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
Coastal
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.5 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 Oystercatcher yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyHaematopodidae
  6. ›genusHaematopus
  7. ›speciesHaematopus ostralegus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyHaematopodidae
  4. genusHaematopus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyHaematopodidae
  11. genusHaematopus
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scholekster (nl), Huîtrier pie (fr), 蛎鹬 (zh), ostrygojad zwyczajny (pl), 검은머리물떼새 (ko), שלצדף החוף (he) … and 25 more languages
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