🦩Black-crowned Night Heron
A espécie Nycticorax nycticorax, conhecida no Brasil como socó-dorminhoco ou savacu e, em Portugal, como goraz ou garça-noturna, é uma garça de médio porte encontrada em grande parte do mundo, exceto em regiões mais frias e na Australásia (onde é substituída pelo seu parente próximo, o savacu-canela, com o qual tem hibridizado na zona de contato).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.81 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 21 years
Everything we know about the Black-crowned Night Heron
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.81 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Female590 kgWikidataQ126216
- Male682 kgWikidataQ126216
Figures vary
- 0.8 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.29 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan21 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation25 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓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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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.8 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 Black-crowned Night Heron yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPelecaniformes
- ›familyArdeidae
- ›genusNycticorax
- ›speciesNycticorax nycticorax
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyArdeidae
- genusNycticorax
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyArdeidae
- genusNycticorax
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