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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758)

עקב חורף (שם מדעי: Buteo buteo) הוא דורס יום ממשפחת הנציים ובסוג עקב. בלעז נקרא עקב אירופאי או עקב מצוי.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/82nd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.76 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Buzzard

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

Body mass
0.76 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female967 kgWikidataQ25385
  • Male790 kgWikidataQ25385

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
29 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

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

Volume l
0.8 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 Common Buzzard 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. ›genusButeo
  7. ›speciesButeo buteo
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  4. familyAccipitridae
All 11 branches ↓
  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
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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Bald Eagle — last shared an ancestor ≈ 25 million years ago.
In other languages
欧亚鵟 (zh), Myszołów zwyczajny (pl), busardo ratonero (es), egerészölyv (hu), ormvråk (sv), buizerd (nl) … and 26 more languages

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