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Accipiter nisus 1 (Bohuš Číčel)🦅

Photo: Bohuš Číčel (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bci… · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Accipiter nisus (Linnaeus, 1758)

נץ מצוי (שם מדעי: Accipiter nisus) הוא עוף דורס ממשפחת הנציים. רוב הפרטים אינם נודדים, אך פרטים שנמצאים באזורים קרים של צפון אירופה וצפון אסיה נודדים בחורף לצפון אפריקה והודו.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/280th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.22 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Sparrowhawk

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

Body mass
0.22 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female290 kgWikidataQ25380
  • Male150 kgWikidataQ25380

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
20 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Habitat
Forest
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
0.2 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Sparrowhawk yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusAccipiter
  7. ›speciesAccipiter nisus
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
🦅 Hen Harrier — last shared an ancestor ≈ 24 million years ago.
In other languages
雀鹰 (zh), krogulec zwyczajny (pl), gavilán común (es), karvaly (hu), sperwer (nl), باشق أوراسي (ar) … and 26 more languages
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Accipiter nisus 1 (Bohuš Číčel)Accipiter nisus Meneer ZjeroenA sparrowhawk cools down in a reflection pool (53929259015)
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