🦅Hen Harrier
Die Kornweihe (Circus cyaneus) ist ein Greifvogel aus der Familie der Habichtartigen (Accipitridae). Das Verbreitungsgebiet erstreckt sich über weite Teile der nördlichen Paläarktis. Die Art bewohnt großflächig offene, mäßig feuchte bis trockene Habitate wie die offene Taiga, Moore, Heiden, Verlandungszonen und Steppen, regional auch junge Nadelholzaufforstungen und landwirtschaftlich genutzte Flächen. Kornweihen sind je nach geografischer Verbreitung Standvögel bis Langstreckenzieher, sie überwintern in Mittel- und Südeuropa, im Nahen und Mittleren Osten sowie im südlichen Ostasien. Im mitteleuropäischen Binnenland ist die Art durch Lebensraumzerstörung weitgehend ausgestorben, die Rote Liste der Brutvögel Deutschlands von 2020 stuft sie in die Kategorie 1 als vom Aussterben bedroht ein. Weltweit ist die Art jedoch ungefährdet.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 0.39 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 17 years
Everything we know about the Hen Harrier
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.39 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male346 kgWikidataQ25572
- Female527 kgWikidataQ25572
Figures vary
- 0.39 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.13 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.35 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan17 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation31 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatGrasslandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAerialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.4 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 Hen Harrier yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAccipitriformes
- ›familyAccipitridae
- ›genusCircus
- ›speciesCircus cyaneus
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusCircus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusCircus
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