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Eurasian Bittern Torrile Italy 4528 (15409347121)🦩

Photo: Francesco Veronesi · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesPelecaniformesArdeidae
Birds

🦩Eurasian Bittern

Botaurus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Буга́й водяний (Botaurus stellaris) — птах родини чаплевих (Ardeidae). Інколи терміном «бугай» позначають всіх представників родів Botaurus і Ixobrychus. У викопному стані вид відомий з плейстоцену. Перебуває під охороною Бернської конвенції та ряду інших природоохоронних документів.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/47th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.32 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 Eurasian Bittern

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

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

By sex

  • Male2.91 kgWikidataQ25709
  • Female2.02 kgWikidataQ25709

Figures vary

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

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

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

Tarsus length
0.09 m
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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

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

Volume l
1.3 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 Eurasian Bittern yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyArdeidae
  6. ›genusBotaurus
  7. ›speciesBotaurus stellaris
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyArdeidae
  4. genusBotaurus
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyArdeidae
  11. genusBotaurus
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Closest relative on this site
🦩 Black-crowned Night Heron — last shared an ancestor ≈ 42 million years ago.
In other languages
roerdomp (nl), Butor étoilé (fr), 大麻鳽 (zh), bąk zwyczajny (pl), Avetoro común (es), bölömbika (hu) … and 27 more languages
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