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Chapim carvoeiro, Coal Tit (50587266376)🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesParidae
Birds

🐦Coal tit

Periparus ater (Linnaeus, 1758)

För släktet Periparus, se svartmesar. Svartmes (Periparus ater) är en liten mes i släktet Periparus. Den förekommer över stora delar av Europa och Asien, huvudsakligen i barrskog.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/6,740th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
9.5 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Coal tit

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
9.5 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0 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 Coal tit yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyParidae
  6. ›genusPeriparus
  7. ›speciesPeriparus ater
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusPeriparus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusPeriparus
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svartmes (sv), Periparus ater (de), московка (ru), Periparus ater (nl), mallerenga petita (ca), sýkora uhelníček (cs) … and 25 more languages
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