🦆Common Eider
참솜깃오리(Somateria mollissima, Common eider 커먼 아이더[*])는 유럽 북부 해안, 아메리카, 시베리아 동부에 서식하는 대형(몸 길이 50–71 cm (20–28 in)) 바다오리이다. 북극과 일부 북부 온대 지역에서 알을 낳지만 해안에서 수많은 무리가 형성될 즈음 온대 지역에서 남쪽으로 이주한다. 최대 113 km/h (70 mph) 속도로 날 수 있다. 둥지는 바다 주변에서 만들며 암컷의 경우 가슴쪽에 아이더다운(eiderdown)으로 감싸있다. 이 부드럽고 따뜻한 내벽은 베개나 누비이불을 채우기 위해 오랜 시간 거둬들여 왔으나 최근 수년 간 가축 거위와 합성 물질로 대체되고 있다. 아이더다운 베개나 누비이불이 현재 찾아보기 어렵지만 아이더다운은 오리새끼가 둥지를 떠날 때 이 새들에게 위해를 주지 않는 상태에서 거둬들일 수 있으므로 거둬들이는 일은 꾸준히 계속되고 있다. 이 오리의 학명은 몸을 뜻하는 고대 그리스어 somatos, 털을 뜻하는 erion, 그리고 "매우 부드러운"을 뜻하는 라틴어 mollissimus에서 비롯된 것으로, 통틀어서 솜깃털을 의미한다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 2.06 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 38 years
Everything we know about the Common Eider
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.06 kgrecord 2.07 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male2.22 kgWikidataQ26696
- Female1.92 kgWikidataQ26696
Figures vary
- 2.13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.28 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan38 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation28 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatMarineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l2.1 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 Common Eider yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAnseriformes
- ›familyAnatidae
- ›genusSomateria
- ›speciesSomateria mollissima
- classBirds · Aves
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- familyAnatidae
- genusSomateria
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- familyAnatidae
- genusSomateria
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