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Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) male🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesSylviidae
Birds

🐦Eurasian blackcap

Sylvia atricapilla (Linnaeus, 1758)

For alternative betydninger, se Munk (flertydig). (Se også artikler, som begynder med Munk) Munken (Sylvia atricapilla) er en sanger i familien af spurvefugle. Den når en længde på 14 centimeter. Den yngler i det nordlige og det tempererede Europa. Fuglen trækker om vinteren til det sydlige Europa og det nordlige Afrika. Siden 1960'erne er nogle munke begyndt at trække til England, muligvis på grund af fodring. Dette lader til at have påvirket fuglene genetisk, så de munke, der trækker til England, har brunere fjerdragt, mere rundede vinger og spidsere næb end dem, der rejser mod syd.

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Also called
Sylvia atricapilla, Blackcap, blackcap
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
14 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian blackcap

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
14 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0 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 blackcap yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familySylviidae
  6. ›genusSylvia
  7. ›speciesSylvia atricapilla
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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In other languages
svarthätta (sv), Sylvia atricapilla (de), munk (nb), Munk (da), tallarol de casquet (ca), pěnice černohlavá (cs) … and 26 more languages
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