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Brolga 1 Healesville, Vic, 3.1.2008 edit🐦

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SpeciesGruiformesGruidae
Birds

🐦Brolga

Grus rubicunda (Perry, 1810)

The brolga, formerly known as the native companion, is a bird in the crane family. It has also been given the name Australian crane, a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithologist John Gould in his Birds of Australia.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
6.25 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
33 years
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Everything we know about the Brolga

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

Body mass
6.25 kg
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

By sex

  • Female5.66 kgWikidataQ926178
  • Male6.84 kgWikidataQ926178
Maximum lifespan
33 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Volume l
6.3 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 Brolga yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGruiformes
  5. ›familyGruidae
  6. ›genusGrus
  7. ›speciesGrus rubicunda
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyGruidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyGruidae
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grua brolga (ca), jeřáb australský (cs), Brolgatrane (da), Brolgakranich (de), Grus rubicunda (es), australiankurki (fi) … and 22 more languages
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