🐦European Bee-eater
O abelharuco-comum, abelharuco-europeu ou simplesmente abelharuco, (Merops apiaster) é uma ave da família Meropidae, migratória, com duas populações indistinguíveis em aspecto, mas diferenciadas pela distribuição geográfica. A primeira destas populações nidifica na Europa até ao Sul da Rússia e Norte de África, migrando para o Sul deste continente. A segunda população, exclusivamente africana, nidifica na região do Cabo, migrando para Norte até à África central.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 0.06 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 5.9 years
Everything we know about the European Bee-eater
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.06 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.06 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.14 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.01 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan5.9 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWoodlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 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 European Bee-eater yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCoraciiformes
- ›familyMeropidae
- ›genusMerops
- ›speciesMerops apiaster
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyMeropidae
- genusMerops
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyMeropidae
- genusMerops
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