🦩Eurasian Spoonbill
O colhereiro-europeu (Platalea leucorodia), também conhecido como colhereiro-comum ou espátula, é uma ave da família Threskiornithidae. Caracteriza-se pela plumagem branca e pelo bico peculiar em forma de espátula. Esta espécie frequenta zonas húmidas, como estuários e lagoas costeiras. Tira partido da forma do bico para procurar alimento no meio da lama. Em Portugal, o colhereiro nidifica em diversos locais do centro e do sul do país. Constrói os seus ninhos em árvores, muitas vezes em associação com garças.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 1.87 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 30 years
Everything we know about the Eurasian Spoonbill
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.87 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.12 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.36 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.19 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.13 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan30 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.9 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 Eurasian Spoonbill yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPelecaniformes
- ›familyThreskiornithidae
- ›genusPlatalea
- ›speciesPlatalea leucorodia
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyThreskiornithidae
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyThreskiornithidae
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