American robin (71307)🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesTurdidae
Birds

🐦American Robin

Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766

旅鶇(學名:Turdus migratorius)亦稱美洲知更鳥(英語:American robin),是鶇屬下的一種候鳥,雖然叫做美洲“知更鳥”,但實際上旅鶇與知更鳥並不是一個屬的生物,二者之間也沒什麼親緣關係。旅鶇廣泛分佈與北美洲,會從加拿大、阿拉斯加飛往墨西哥中部及附近的太平洋沿海地區過冬。它是美國康涅狄格州、密歇根州和威斯康星州的州鳥。有時被認為是現存種群數量僅次於紅翅黑鸝的北美洲陸禽。旅鶇有七個亞種,但只有南下加利福尼亞州的T. m. confinis特征明顯。 旅鶇在白天出沒,晚上則聚集在一起歇息。其食物包括無脊椎動物和植物果實。夏季回歸後不久就會開始產卵,是北美洲最早開始產卵的鳥類之一。它們的巢穴以草葉、樹枝和羽毛等組成,內部墊有細草,外部塗有泥巴。它們黎明時分開始鳴叫。 鷹等大型猛禽是旅鶇的天敵,群居的旅鶇會互相警戒以防止被捕食。褐頭牛鸝會將自己的卵寄生在旅鶇的巢裡,但後者一般並不會隨之接受這些卵。

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≈ 1/790th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

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

Everything we know about the American Robin

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
17 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
13 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 3
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Habitat
Forest
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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
0.1 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 American Robin yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyTurdidae
  6. ›genusTurdus
  7. ›speciesTurdus migratorius
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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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
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drozd stěhovavý (cs), Wanderdrossel (de), Griva americana (ca), Vandredrossel (da), Turdus migratorius (es), punarintarastas (fi) … and 24 more languages

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