🦉Great Horned Owl
Le Grand-duc d'Amérique (Bubo virginianus) ou Grand-duc de Virginie, est une espèce de rapaces nocturnes appartenant à la famille des Strigidae et à la sous-famille des Striginae. Il est souvent comparé avec son cousin le Grand-duc d'Europe avec qui il partage de nombreux points communs.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 1.35 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 29 years
Everything we know about the Great Horned Owl
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.35 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.19 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.2 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.37 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan29 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation27 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 3AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.4 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 Great Horned Owl yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderStrigiformes
- ›familyStrigidae
- ›genusBubo
- ›speciesBubo virginianus
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOwls · Strigiformes
- familyStrigidae
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOwls · Strigiformes
- familyStrigidae
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