ハクトウワシ vs Coast Fescue

Haliaeetus leucocephalus compared with Festuca elmeri

Key Differences

  • ハクトウワシ is Not Evaluated while Coast Fescue is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank ハクトウワシ Coast Fescue
Kingdom Animalia (動物) Plantae (植物)
Phylum Chordata (脊索動物) Magnoliophyta (被子植物門)
Class Aves (鳥類) Liliopsida (単子葉植物綱)
Order Accipitriformes (タカ目) Poales (イネ目)
Family Accipitridae (Hawks & Eagles) Poaceae (Grass Family)
Genus Haliaeetus (Sea Eagles) Festuca
Species Haliaeetus leucocephalus Festuca elmeri

Conservation Status

ハクトウワシ

NE — Not Evaluated

Population: ~316.7K

Trend: Increasing ↑

Coast Fescue

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute ハクトウワシ Coast Fescue
Diet Carnivore
Average Lifespan 28 years
Average Length 90 cm
Average Weight 5.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

ハクトウワシ

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 10 distinct biome types spanning the Neotropic and Palearctic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Europe (8 countries), North America (United States), and South America (Ecuador).

Coast Fescue

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Found in Mexico.

ハクトウワシ

アメリカの国鳥であり保全の成功を象徴するハクトウワシは翼開長が最大2.4 mに達し、北米全域の水辺近くの森林や湿地に生息する。強力な空中捕食者兼腐肉食者で魚を主食とするが、水鳥や腐肉も捕食する。DDT汚染と狩猟によって1960年代にほぼ絶滅に瀕したが、農薬の使用禁止と絶滅危惧種法の施行により劇的に回復した。

Coast Fescue

Coast fescue (Festuca elmeri) is a perennial bunchgrass in the family Poaceae, native to coastal and near-coastal grasslands of California and northern Baja California, Mexico. It grows on sandy bluffs, coastal terraces, coastal prairie, and the margins of coastal scrub communities, tolerating salt spray, summer drought, and the nutrient-poor soils characteristic of Pacific Coast grasslands. The genus Festuca encompasses numerous fescue species distributed globally, many of which are important components of natural grasslands and widely cultivated as turf and forage grasses. Coast fescue forms tufted clumps with narrow, rolled or folded leaves and produces slender flowering culms in late spring. It is an important component of California's native coastal prairie, a community that has been dramatically reduced by agricultural conversion, urban development, and invasion by European annual grasses. The IUCN assesses coast fescue as Least Concern. Native coastal prairie restoration projects in California use Festuca elmeri as a key species for revegetating degraded coastal bluffs and terraces.

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