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Gypaète barbu 77 (detail)🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Bearded vulture

Gypaetus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

A szakállas saskeselyű (Gypaetus barbatus) a vágómadár-alakúak (Accipitriformes) rendjébe, ezen belül a vágómadárfélék (Accipitridae) családjába tartozó Gypaetus nem egyetlen faja.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
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≈ 1/11th of your weight
Also called
Lammergeyer, lammergeier
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

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

Everything we know about the Bearded vulture

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

Body mass
5.7 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female6.17 kgWikidataQ126167
  • Male4.91 kgWikidataQ126167

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
40 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
Scavenger
AVONET
Details ↓

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

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

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Volume l
5.7 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 Bearded vulture 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. ›genusGypaetus
  7. ›speciesGypaetus barbatus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusGypaetus
All 12 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
  12. genusGypaetus
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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Egyptian Vulture — last shared an ancestor ≈ 26 million years ago.
In other languages
Bartgeier (de), 胡兀鹫 (zh), نسر أبو ذقن (ar), брадат лешояд (bg), trencalòs (ca), orlosup bradatý (cs) … and 27 more languages
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Gypaète barbu 77 (detail)Bearded Vulture Catalan Pyrenees Spain (25098398432)126899 gypaetus barbatus PikiWiki Israel
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