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Anhinga (81435)🐦

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SpeciesSuliformesAnhingidae
Birds

🐦Anhinga

Anhinga anhinga (Linnaeus, 1766)

Amerikansk ormhalsfågel (Anhinga anhinga) är en sjöfågel i släktet ormhalsfåglar som lever i de varmare delarna av Nordamerika och Sydamerika. Den är en skarvlik fågel med en medellängd på 85 centimeter, ett vingspann på 117 centimeter och en vikt på 1 350 gram. Den har mörk fjäderdräkt, är fiskätare, har mycket lång hals och simmar ofta med bara halsen ovanför vattenytan. När den simmar på detta sätt kan den likna en orm, vilket givit den namnet ormhalsfågel.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
Anhinga anhinga
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.24 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
16 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Anhinga

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

Beak length
0.09 m
AVONET
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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
16 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
28 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 4
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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
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.2 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 Anhinga yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSuliformes
  5. ›familyAnhingidae
  6. ›genusAnhinga
  7. ›speciesAnhinga anhinga
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyAnhingidae
  4. genusAnhinga
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyAnhingidae
  11. genusAnhinga
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In other languages
anhinga americká (cs), Anhinga americà (ca), Amerikansk Slangehalsfugl (da), Amerika-Schlangenhalsvogel (de), Anhinga anhinga (es), amerikankäärmekaula (fi) … and 22 more languages
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