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SpeciesBucerotiformesUpupidae
Birds

🐦Eurasian Hoopoe

Upupa epops Linnaeus, 1758

Hærfuglen (latin: Upupa epops) er en fugl i familien af hærfugle i ordenen Bucerotiformes (tidligere regnedes den blandt skrigefuglene), der lever i Europa, Asien, Afrika og i Madagaskar. Den har en længde på 28 cm og vejer 75 gram. Føden består af insekter, orme, snegle og edderkopper. Arten har næsten ikke ynglet i Danmark siden 1800-tallet. På den danske rødliste 2019 angives den som uddød som ynglefugl i Danmark, men ses undertiden som trækfugl.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
5
Photos
2
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/930th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

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

Everything we know about the Eurasian Hoopoe

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

Body mass
0.07 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
11 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

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

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

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Hoopoe yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderBucerotiformes
  5. ›familyUpupidae
  6. ›genusUpupa
  7. ›speciesUpupa epops
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderUpupiformes
  3. familyUpupidae
  4. genusUpupa
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderUpupiformes
  11. familyUpupidae
  12. genusUpupa
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More about the Eurasian Hoopoe

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Black Woodpecker — last shared an ancestor ≈ 72 million years ago.
In other languages
戴胜 (zh), dudek zwyczajny (pl), Upupa epops (es), búbos banka (hu), Τσαλαπετεινός (el), Hop (nl) … and 27 more languages
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