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0056 killdeer mother munsel odfw (5805673423)🐦

Photo: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesCharadriiformesCharadriidae
Birds

🐦Killdeer

Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758

O borrelho-de-dupla-coleira ou borrelho-de-coleira-dupla (Charadrius vociferus) é ave limícola da ordem dos caradriformes.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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8
Measurements
13
vs you
≈ 1/640th of your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

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

Everything we know about the Killdeer

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

Body mass
0.1 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

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

Wing length
0.16 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
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
11 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
24 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 4
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
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

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
Details ↓

Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Killdeer yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyCharadriidae
  6. ›genusCharadrius
  7. ›speciesCharadrius vociferus
Full lineage
  1. superclassSarcopterygii
  2. superclassTetrapoda
  3. orderSauria
  4. classBirds · Aves
All 9 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
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In other languages
corriol cua-roig (ca), kulík rezavoocasý (cs), Kildire (da), Keilschwanz-Regenpfeifer (de), Charadrius vociferus (es), amerikantylli (fi) … and 22 more languages
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0056 killdeer mother munsel odfw (5805673423)070530 4855 wiki2025 04 15 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA Killdeer Nesting
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