🦉Eastern Screech Owl
A coruja-do-leste (Megascops asio) é uma pequena espécie de coruja relativamente comum no leste da América do Norte, do México ao Canadá. Esta espécie habita diversos tipos de ambientes florestais em sua área de distribuição e é relativamente adaptável a áreas urbanas e desenvolvidas em comparação com outras corujas. Embora frequentemente viva próxima aos humanos, a coruja-do-leste evita detecção devido a seus hábitos estritamente noturnos.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 0.18 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 Eastern Screech Owl
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.18 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.16 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.17 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan21 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation29 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWoodlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 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 Eastern Screech Owl yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderStrigiformes
- ›familyStrigidae
- ›genusMegascops
- ›speciesMegascops asio
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOwls · Strigiformes
- familyStrigidae
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderOwls · Strigiformes
- familyStrigidae
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