🐦American Coot
O galeirão-americano (Fulica americana) é uma ave da família Rallidae. É bastante parecido com o galeirão-comum, distinguindo-se desta espécie pelas infracaudais brancas e pela presença de um pequeno anel preto perto da extremidade do bico. Este galeirão apresenta também uma pequena crista avermelhada (semelhante à do galeirão-de-crista), a qual só é visível a pequena distância. Esta espécie distribui-se pelo continente americano (América do Norte, Central e do Sul) e também pelos arquipélagos do Havai e das Antilhas, sendo de ocorrência muito rara na Europa.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.64 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the American Coot
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.64 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.45 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.18 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan22 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation23 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 10AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.6 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 American Coot yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderGruiformes
- ›familyRallidae
- ›genusFulica
- ›speciesFulica americana
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- genusFulica
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- genusFulica
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