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Earlswood Common May 2011 Great Crested Grebe🐦

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SpeciesPodicipediformesPodicipedidae
Birds

🐦Great Crested Grebe

Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

A búbos vöcsök (Podiceps cristatus) a vöcsökalakúak (Podicipediformes) rendjébe, ezen belül a vöcsökfélék (Podicipedidae) családjába tartozó karcsú vízimadár faj.

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Measurements
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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.73 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
19 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Crested Grebe

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

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

By sex

  • Male920 kgWikidataQ25422
  • Female830 kgWikidataQ25422

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
19 years
AnAge
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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
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.7 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 Great Crested Grebe yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPodicipediformes
  5. ›familyPodicipedidae
  6. ›genusPodiceps
  7. ›speciesPodiceps cristatus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPodicipediformes
  4. familyPodicipedidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPodicipediformes
  11. familyPodicipedidae
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Closest relative on this site
🦩 Greater Flamingo — last shared an ancestor ≈ 59 million years ago.
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Fuut (nl), skäggdopping (sv), Haubentaucher (de), большая поганка (ru), cabussó emplomallat (ca), potápka roháč (cs) … and 27 more languages
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