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SpeciesPasseriformesIcteridae
Birds

🐦Brown-headed Cowbird

Molothrus ater (Boddaert, 1783)

Vaqueiro-de-cabeça-castanha ou chupim-mulato (Molothrus ater) é um pequeno icterídeo parasita de ninhada, nativo da América do Norte temperada e subtropical. É um residente permanente na parte sul da sua área de distribuição. As aves do norte migram para o sul dos Estados Unidos e para o México no inverno, regressando ao seu habitat de verão por volta de março ou abril.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/1,540th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.04 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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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Brown-headed Cowbird

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

Body mass
0.04 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
17 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
11 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Volume l
0 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 Brown-headed Cowbird yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyIcteridae
  6. ›genusMolothrus
  7. ›speciesMolothrus ater
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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In other languages
merla de cap bru (ca), vlhovec hnědohlavý (cs), Brunhovedet Kostær (da), Braunkopf-Kuhstärling (de), Molothrus ater (es), lehmäturpiaali (fi) … and 21 more languages
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