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American woodcock (95252)🐦

Photo: Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesCharadriiformesScolopacidae
Birds

🐦American Woodcock

Scolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 1789

Amerikanlehtokurppa (Scolopax minor) on pienikokoinen rantalintu. Se on Yhdysvalloissa riistalintu.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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7
Photos
2
Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/320th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.2 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American Woodcock

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

Body mass
0.2 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

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

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

Beak length
0.07 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
21 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
20 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 4
AnAge
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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
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
Details ↓

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 American Woodcock yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyScolopacidae
  6. ›genusScolopax
  7. ›speciesScolopax minor
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyScolopacidae
  4. genusScolopax
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyScolopacidae
  11. genusScolopax
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In other languages
Bécasse d'Amérique (fr), Amerikaanse houtsnip (nl), becada americana (ca), Scolopax minor (it), sluka americká (cs), amerikanlehtokurppa (fi) … and 21 more languages
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