🦩Eurasian Bittern
Le Butor étoilé (Botaurus stellaris) est une espèce d'oiseaux échassiers de la famille des ardéidés (hérons, aigrettes). L'espèce est classée (2025) en préoccupation mineure (espèce pour laquelle le risque de disparition est faible) sur la Liste rouge mondiale des espèces menacées (listé Botaurus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758)) et la Liste rouge européenne des espèces menacées, alors qu'il était classé "possiblement en danger" auparavant. En France, Botaurus stellaris est classé (2016) vulnérable dans la liste rouge des oiseaux nicheurs de France métropolitaine et comme une espèce disparue ou en danger critique dans certaines régions.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 1.32 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 11 years
Everything we know about the Eurasian Bittern
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.32 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male2.91 kgWikidataQ25709
- Female2.02 kgWikidataQ25709
Figures vary
- 1.32 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.32 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan11 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.3 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 Bittern yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPelecaniformes
- ›familyArdeidae
- ›genusBotaurus
- ›speciesBotaurus stellaris
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyArdeidae
- genusBotaurus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyArdeidae
- genusBotaurus
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