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Common grackle in PP (36732)🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesIcteridae
Birds

🐦Common Grackle

Quiscalus quiscula (Linnaeus, 1758)

O rabo-de-quilha (Quiscalus quiscula) é uma espécie de ave da família Icteridae de grande porte encontrada em abundância na América do Norte. Descrito pela primeira vez em 1758 por Lineu, o rabo-de-quilha tem três subespécies. Os adultos têm um bico longo e escuro, olhos amarelos pálidos e uma cauda longa. Os adultos geralmente têm uma aparência iridescente na cabeça, especialmente os machos. Podem ser encontrados em toda a América do Norte, a leste das Montanhas Rochosas.

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≈ 1/590th of your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.11 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Grackle

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

Body mass
0.11 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female92 kgWikidataQ1424486
  • Male120 kgWikidataQ1424486

Figures vary

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

Wing length
0.13 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
0.04 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
14 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 5
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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
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
0.1 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 Common Grackle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages
سوادية مألوفة (ar), merla cuada comuna (ca), vlhovec nachový (cs), Sortgrackel (da), Purpur-Grackel (de), Quiscalus quiscula (es) … and 21 more languages

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