🐦Common loon
Der Eistaucher (Gavia immer) ist eine Vogelart aus der Gattung der Seetaucher (Gavia). Die Art brütet in der Tundra und im borealen Nadelwald im nördlichen Nordamerika, in Grönland und auf Island und überwintert an den Küsten Nordamerikas und Europas. In Mitteleuropa ist der Eistaucher in den Küstenregionen regelmäßig in den Monaten November bis März in kleiner Zahl als Durchzügler und Wintergast zu beobachten. Deutlich seltener ist er auch im Binnenland zu sehen. So wird er seit den 1970er Jahren immer wieder am Genfersee und am Bodensee beobachtet.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 4.96 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Common loon
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.96 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male5.46 kgWikidataQ190342
- Female4.5 kgWikidataQ190342
Figures vary
- 3.4 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.37 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan24 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation28 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Litter sizeabout 2AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5 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 Common loon yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderGaviiformes
- ›familyGaviidae
- ›genusGavia
- ›speciesGavia immer
- classBirds · Aves
- orderGaviiformes
- familyGaviidae
- genusGavia
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderGaviiformes
- familyGaviidae
- genusGavia
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