Anas strepera pair🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Gadwall

Mareca strepera (Linnaeus, 1758)

ברווז אפור (שם מדעי: Mareca strepera) הוא מין ברווז נפוץ ממשפחת הברווזיים.

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≈ 1/68th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.92 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Gadwall

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

Body mass
0.92 kg
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Tail length
0.08 m
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Wing length
0.25 m
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Beak length
0.05 m
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Tarsus length
0.04 m
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Habitat
Wetland
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Lifestyle
Aquatic
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Volume l
0.9 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 Gadwall yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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snatterand (sv), Schnatterente (de), Mareca strepera (nl), ànec griset (ca), kopřivka obecná (cs), Knarand (da) … and 23 more languages
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