🐔Greater Prairie Chicken
El gallo de las praderas grande o urogallo grande (Tympanuchus cupido) es una especie de ave galliforme de la familia Phasianidae endémica de Estados Unidos. Fue una vez abundante, pero se ha vuelto extremadamente rara o extinta en la mayor parte de su área de distribución debido a la pérdida de hábitat. Uno de los aspectos más famosos de estas aves es el ritual de apareamiento del tipo lek.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 0.87 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 5 years
Everything we know about the Greater Prairie Chicken
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.87 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.91 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.2 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan5 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation23 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 13AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatGrasslandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.9 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 Greater Prairie Chicken yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderGalliformes
- ›familyPhasianidae
- ›genusTympanuchus
- ›speciesTympanuchus cupido
- classBirds · Aves
- orderGamebirds · Galliformes
- subfamilyTetraoninae
- genusTympanuchus
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderGamebirds · Galliformes
- subfamilyTetraoninae
- genusTympanuchus
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