🐦Eurasian Woodcock
The Eurasian woodcock is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its woodland habitat, with reddish-brown upperparts and buff-coloured underparts. Its eyes are set far back on its head to give it 360-degree vision and it probes in the ground for food with its long, sensitive bill, making it vulnerable to cold weather when the ground remains frozen.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.31 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 16 years
Everything we know about the Eurasian Woodcock
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.31 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.31 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.19 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan16 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.3 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 Eurasian Woodcock yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCharadriiformes
- ›familyScolopacidae
- ›genusScolopax
- ›speciesScolopax rusticola
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyScolopacidae
- genusScolopax
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyScolopacidae
- genusScolopax
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