🦅Bearded vulture
Der Bartgeier (Gypaetus barbatus), veraltet auch Lämmergeier genannt, ist ein Greifvogel aus der Familie der Habichtartigen (Accipitridae). Er bildet die einzige Art der gleichnamigen Gattung (Gypaetus). Traditionell zählte er zur Unterfamilie der Altweltgeier (Aegypiinae), ehe er aufgrund molekulargenetischer Untersuchungen mit dem Schmutzgeier und dem Palmgeier in eine eigene Unterfamilie (Gypaetinae) gestellt wurde. Mit einer Flügelspannweite von bis zu 2,9 Metern zählt der Bartgeier zu den größten flugfähigen Vögeln der Welt. Er ist neben dem etwa gleich großen Mönchsgeier der größte Greifvogel Europas, und mit 230 bis 250 Brutpaaren in den Alpen einer der seltensten.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 5.7 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 40 years
Everything we know about the Bearded vulture
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.7 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Female6.17 kgWikidataQ126167
- Male4.91 kgWikidataQ126167
Figures vary
- 5.07 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.47 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.76 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan40 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelScavengerAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatRockAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5.7 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 Bearded vulture yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAccipitriformes
- ›familyAccipitridae
- ›genusGypaetus
- ›speciesGypaetus barbatus
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusGypaetus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusGypaetus
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