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Common Teal Male (8602525826)🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Eurasian Teal

Anas crecca Linnaeus, 1758

Krikanden (Anas crecca) er en meget almindelig trækfugl i Danmark, men fåtallig som ynglefugl.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/180th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.34 kg
Body length
0.38 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
27 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Teal

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

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

Figures vary

  • 0.34 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.38 mmaximum recorded, total length
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
27 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
22 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 10
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

Lifestyle
Aquatic
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
0.3 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 Teal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusAnas
  7. ›speciesAnas crecca
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. superorderGalloanserae
  3. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  4. familyAnatidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
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Closest relative on this site
🦆 Common Pochard — last shared an ancestor ≈ 8.8 million years ago.
In other languages
Wintertaling (nl), Sarcelle d'hiver (fr), 绿翅鸭 (zh), Cyraneczka (pl), Anas crecca (es), csörgő réce (hu) … and 27 more languages
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