🐦Indian Roller
La carraca india (Coracias benghalensis) es una especie de ave coraciiforme de la familia Coraciidae que vive en el sur de Asia. Suele encontrarse en hábitats herbáceos y de matorral, y puede observarse posada en ramas y cables. No es un ave migratoria, pero puede realizar algunos desplazamientos estacionales.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.16 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 8.9 years
Everything we know about the Indian Roller
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.16 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.16 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.12 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.18 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan8.9 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatHuman ModifiedAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 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 Indian Roller yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCoraciiformes
- ›familyCoraciidae
- ›genusCoracias
- ›speciesCoracias benghalensis
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyCoraciidae
- genusCoracias
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyCoraciidae
- genusCoracias
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