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Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis🐦

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SpeciesSuliformesPhalacrocoracidae
Birds

🐦European shag

Gulosus aristotelis (Linnaeus, 1761)

Toppskarv (Gulosus aristotelis) är en fågel som tillhör familjen skarvar. Den förekommer utmed Europas och Nordafrikas kuster, i östra Medelhavet samt i Svarta havet. Från att tidigare ha varit en sällsynt besökare häckar numera arten regelbundet på den svenska västkusten. Globalt minskar den dock i antal men beståndet anses ändå vara livskraftigt.

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≈ 1/35th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.76 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the European shag

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

Body mass
1.76 kg
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Tail length
0.14 m
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Wing length
0.26 m
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Beak length
0.07 m
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Tarsus length
0.06 m
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Habitat
Marine
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
1.8 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 European shag yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSuliformes
  5. ›familyPhalacrocoracidae
  6. ›genusPhalacrocorax
  7. ›speciesPhalacrocorax aristotelis
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyPhalacrocoracidae
  4. genusGulosus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyPhalacrocoracidae
  11. genusGulosus
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Krähenscharbe (de), Gulosus aristotelis (it), Gulosus aristotelis (es), Gulosus aristotelis (fr), Gulosus aristotelis (bg), Gulosus aristotelis (ru) … and 11 more languages
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