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Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) (25936816473)🐦

Photo: Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesPasseriformesMuscicapidae
Birds

🐦Common Nightingale

Luscinia megarhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1831

El ruiseñor común​ (Luscinia megarhynchos) es una especie de ave paseriforme anteriormente clasificado como un miembro de la familia Turdidae, pero ahora generalmente considerado parte de la familia Muscicapidae.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/3,170th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
11 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Nightingale

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.08 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
11 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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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 Nightingale yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyMuscicapidae
  6. ›genusLuscinia
  7. ›speciesLuscinia megarhynchos
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
All 10 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 European robin — last shared an ancestor ≈ 19 million years ago.
In other languages
Luscinia megarhynchos (nl), Luscinia megarhynchos (es), Rossignol philomèle (fr), 新疆歌鸲 (zh), słowik rdzawy (pl), fülemüle (hu) … and 27 more languages
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Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) (25936816473)Bilbil Luscinia megarhynchos2018.05.26. 06 Erlichsee Oberhausen Rheinhausen Nachtigall
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