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Circus cyaneus 265961899🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Hen Harrier

Circus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)

잿빛개구리매(Circus cyaneus)는 수리과의 맹금류이다. 대한민국의 천연기념물 323-6호로 지정되어 있다. 북아메리카 대륙 북부와 유라시아 대륙 북부에서 번식하며 겨울에는 북아메리카 대륙 남부에서 남아메리카 북부, 아프리카 북부, 유라시아 중부로 이동하여 월동한다. 수컷은 40-45cm, 암컷은 50-55cm로 암컷이 더 크다. 꼬리 깃털의 뒷면에 흰 반점이 있는 것이 특징이다. 대한민국에서는 천연기념물 제323-6호 및 멸종위기 야생생물 Ⅱ급으로 지정하여 보호하고 있다.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.39 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Everything we know about the Hen Harrier

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

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

By sex

  • Male346 kgWikidataQ25572
  • Female527 kgWikidataQ25572

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
17 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
31 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 4
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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
Grassland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
0.4 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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusCircus
  7. ›speciesCircus cyaneus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusCircus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyAccipitridae
  12. genusCircus
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🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk — last shared an ancestor ≈ 24 million years ago.
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白尾鹞 (zh), błotniak zbożowy (pl), aguilucho pálido (es), kékes rétihéja (hu), blauwe kiekendief (nl), blå kärrhök (sv) … and 27 more languages
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