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Bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus) Flickr Lip Kee🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Bateleur

Terathopius ecaudatus (Daudin, 1800)

חִוְיַאי לַהֲטוּטָן או חיוואי מוקיון או באטלור (שם מדעי: Terathopius ecaudatus) הוא דורס יום בינוני עד גדול ממשפחת הנציים (Accipitridae), המהווה מין יחיד בסוגו. הוא מסווג תחת תת-משפחת עיטי-נחשים (Circaetinae) וקרוב גנטית לחיוויאי הנחשים מהסוג Circaetus, הנפוץ יותר בישראל. תפוצתו העיקרית היא באפריקה שמדרום לסהרה, עם נוכחות מצומצמת בדרום חצי האי ערב, ובישראל הוא מוגדר כמזדמן נדיר.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

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

Everything we know about the Bateleur

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
55 years
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data quality: questionable

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

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

Volume l
2.2 Laverage
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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 Bateleur yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusTerathopius
  7. ›speciesTerathopius ecaudatus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusTerathopius
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyAccipitridae
  12. genusTerathopius
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Gaukler (de), Bateleur (nl), àguila batallaire (ca), orlík kejklíř (cs), Gøglerørn (da), águila volatinera (es) … and 23 more languages
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