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Circus cyaneus 265961899🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Hen Harrier

Circus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)

白尾鹞（学名：Circus cyaneus），为鹰科鹞属的鸟类。多生活于沼泽以及牧场。该物种的模式产地在欧洲、非洲。 它會在冬季遷徙到更南方的地區。歐亞大陸的鳥類會移動到南歐和南方溫帶亞洲。在氣候最溫和的地區，如法國和大不列顛，灰澤鵟全年都可能出現，但冬季高地大多無人居住。 北方澤鵟曾被認為是灰澤鵟的一個亞種。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.39 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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Everything we know about the Hen Harrier

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

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

By sex

  • Male346 kgWikidataQ25572
  • Female527 kgWikidataQ25572

Figures vary

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

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

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

Tarsus length
0.07 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
31 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 4
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.4 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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusCircus
  7. ›speciesCircus cyaneus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusCircus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyAccipitridae
  12. genusCircus
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🦅 Eurasian Sparrowhawk — last shared an ancestor ≈ 24 million years ago.
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白尾鹞 (zh), błotniak zbożowy (pl), aguilucho pálido (es), kékes rétihéja (hu), blauwe kiekendief (nl), blå kärrhök (sv) … and 27 more languages
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