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Eurasian Bittern Torrile Italy 4528 (15409347121)🦩

Photo: Francesco Veronesi · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesPelecaniformesArdeidae
Birds

🦩Eurasian Bittern

Botaurus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

알락해오라기(Eurasian bittern, great bittern, 학명: Botaurus stellaris)는 백로과 알락해오라기아과의 섭금류이다. 2개의 아종이 있다: 북부종(B. s. stellaris), 남부종(B. s. capensis). 갈대밭에 몰래 숨는 것을 선호하기 때문에 개방된 곳에서는 거의 보이지 않는다. 짝짓기 시기에 수컷이 울부짖는 소리가 들리는 봄에 모습이 잘 보인다. 물고기, 작은 포유류, 어린 새들, 양서류, 갑각류, 곤충을 먹이로 한다. 수컷이 암컷보다 더 크다. 알락해오라기의 길이는 69~81cm, 날개 길이는 100~130cm, 체질량은 0.87~1.94kg이다. 목 뒤쪽은 검은색이며 개개의 깃털은 다소 긴 편이다.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.32 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
11 years
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Everything we know about the Eurasian Bittern

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

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

By sex

  • Male2.91 kgWikidataQ25709
  • Female2.02 kgWikidataQ25709

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
11 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
1.3 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 Eurasian Bittern yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyArdeidae
  6. ›genusBotaurus
  7. ›speciesBotaurus stellaris
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyArdeidae
  4. genusBotaurus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyArdeidae
  11. genusBotaurus
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🦩 Black-crowned Night Heron — last shared an ancestor ≈ 42 million years ago.
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roerdomp (nl), Butor étoilé (fr), 大麻鳽 (zh), bąk zwyczajny (pl), Avetoro común (es), bölömbika (hu) … and 27 more languages
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