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Eurasian Coot🐦

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SpeciesGruiformesRallidae
Birds

🐦Common Coot

Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758

Sothöna (Fulica atra) är en vattenlevande fågel som tillhör familjen rallar. Den har en rund kroppsform, skiffersvart fjäderdräkt och vitaktig näbb med en fjäderlös pannsköld, och nickar med huvudet när den simmar. Arten, som ofta delas upp i fyra underarter, häckar i Nordafrika, Europa och stora delar av Centralasien till Japan och söderut till Australien och Nya Zeeland. Delar av populationen är stannfåglar medan de som häckar i kallare områden flyttar söderut om vintern.

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≈ 1/87th of your weight
Also called
coot, Coot, Eurasian Coot, European Coot
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.72 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Coot

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

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

By sex

  • Male835 kgWikidataQ25376
  • Female715 kgWikidataQ25376

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
21 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Volume l
0.7 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 Common Coot yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGruiformes
  5. ›familyRallidae
  6. ›genusFulica
  7. ›speciesFulica atra
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. genusFulica
All 10 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. genusFulica
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Moorhen — last shared an ancestor ≈ 14 million years ago.
In other languages
sothöna (sv), Blässhuhn (de), лысуха (ru), Meerkoet (nl), fotja (ca), lyska černá (cs) … and 28 more languages
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