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Dévaványa, Hungary – Great bustard 01🐦

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SpeciesOtidiformesOtididae
Birds

🐦Great Bustard

Otis tarda Linnaeus, 1758

The great bustard is a bird in the bustard family, and the only living member of the genus Otis. It breeds in open grasslands and farmland from northern Morocco, South and Central Europe to temperate Central and East Asia. European populations are mainly resident, but Asian populations migrate farther south in winter. Endangered as of 2023, it had been listed as a Vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 1996.

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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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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

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  • 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
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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.

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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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