🦆Common Shelduck
Die Brandgans (Tadorna tadorna) ist eine Art aus der Familie der Entenvögel, die zur Tribus der Halbgänse (Tadornini) gehört. Halbgänse ähneln in ihrem Habitus Gänsen, sie haben jedoch auch Merkmale, wie sie für Eigentliche Enten charakteristisch sind. Vor allem in älterer Literatur findet man daher für diese Art die Bezeichnung Brandente. Die Brandgans kommt in zwei voneinander getrennten Populationen vor, die etwas unterschiedliche Lebensräume nutzen. In Europa ist die Brandgans eine Art, die sich vor allem an der Küste aufhält. Die asiatische Population lebt überwiegend an salzigen und brackigen Steppengewässern. Es werden trotzdem keine Unterarten für diese Art unterschieden.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 1.15 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Common Shelduck
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.15 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male1.26 kgWikidataQ25761
- Female1.04 kgWikidataQ25761
Figures vary
- 1.15 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.11 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.31 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan25 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatCoastalAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleGeneralistAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.1 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 Shelduck yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAnseriformes
- ›familyAnatidae
- ›genusTadorna
- ›speciesTadorna tadorna
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- familyAnatidae
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- familyAnatidae
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