🦅Bearded vulture
El quebrantahuesos (Gypaetus barbatus, literalmente «buitre-águila barbado») es una especie de ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae. Es un buitre notablemente distinto de otras aves de presa parecidas. Recibe su nombre por su costumbre de recoger huesos y caparazones hasta grandes alturas para soltarlos, partirlos contra las rocas y poder ingerirlos para alimentarse. Se trata de una especie amenazada en amplias zonas de su distribución, y en el continente europeo es un animal en grave peligro de extinción que ha desaparecido de varias regiones donde antes era abundante.[cita requerida] En la actualidad se le puede observar en la cordillera Cantábrica (donde ha sido reintroducido gracias a ejemplares oscenses), los Pirineos, los Alpes (donde ha sido reintroducido), norte de África, el Gran Valle del Rift, Sudáfrica, Grecia y desde Anatolia hasta los montes Tian Shan y el Himalaya.
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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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