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Dévaványa, Hungary – Great bustard 01🐦

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SpeciesOtidiformesOtididae
Birds

🐦Great Bustard

Otis tarda Linnaeus, 1758

Isotrappi (Otis tarda) on suurikokoinen trappilintu, joka elää Euraasian lauhkeilla alueilla. Laji on tavattu Suomessa kolme kertaa: vuosina 1806, 1853 ja 1942.

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Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
6.76 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
28 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Bustard

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
28 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Habitat
Grassland
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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
6.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

Wingspan
208 maverage180–235 m · range across sexes
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.

By sex

  • Male235 mWikidataQ171655
  • Female180 mWikidataQ171655

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great Bustard yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderOtidiformes
  5. ›familyOtididae
  6. ›genusOtis
  7. ›speciesOtis tarda
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyOtididae
  4. genusOtis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyOtididae
  11. genusOtis
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stortrapp (sv), Großtrappe (de), Grote Trap (nl), pioc salvatge (ca), drop velký (cs), Stortrappe (da) … and 26 more languages
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Dévaványa, Hungary – Great bustard 01Abetarda comum, macho, Great Bustard, male (54453981197)Abetarda comum, macho, Great Bustard, male (54455966545)
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