🦅Bald Eagle
흰머리수리(영어: bald eagle, 학명: Haliaeetus leucocephalus 할리아이에투스 레우코케팔루스[*])는 북아메리카에서 볼 수 있는 맹금류의 하나로 미국의 국조이자 상징이다. 캐나다 대부분과 알래스카, 멕시코 북부, 미국 본토에 걸쳐 서식한다. 먹거리가 풍부한 드넓은 개빙 구역과 둥지를 틀 수 있는 오래된 나무가 있는 곳 가까이에서 볼 수 있다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 4.7 kg
- Body length
- 1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 48 years
Everything we know about the Bald Eagle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.7 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male4.13 kgWikidataQ127216
- Female5.35 kgWikidataQ127216
Figures vary
- 3.17 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tail length0.29 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Wing length0.6 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan48 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation35 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Litter sizeabout 2AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleGeneralistAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.7 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Bald Eagle yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAccipitriformes
- ›familyAccipitridae
- ›genusHaliaeetus
- ›speciesHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusHaliaeetus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusHaliaeetus
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