🐦Black-capped Chickadee
Die Schwarzkopfmeise (Poecile atricapillus) ist ein amerikanischer Singvogel aus der Familie der Meisen. Wie andere Arten der Gattung Poecile wurde die Schwarzkopmeise früher in die Gattung Parus gestellt, so dass als wissenschaftlicher Name der Schwarzkopfmeise oft auch Parus atricapillus zu finden ist.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.01 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 12 years
Everything we know about the Black-capped Chickadee
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.01 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.01 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.01 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan12 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation12 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 7AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0 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 Black-capped Chickadee yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPasseriformes
- ›familyParidae
- ›genusPoecile
- ›speciesPoecile atricapillus
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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