AnAge entry for Bonasa umbellus
Classification (HAGRID: 00672)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Bonasa
- Species
- Bonasa umbellus
- Common name
- Ruffed grouse
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- IMR
- 0.55/year
- MRDT
- Not yet available
- Maximum longevity
- 11 years
- Source
- Multiple references, please see bibliography below
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
About 55 per cent of animals die during winter [0437].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 120 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 120 days
- Incubation
- 24 days
- Clutch size
- 11 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 12 g
- Adult weight
- 532 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.068 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.3894 W
- Body mass
- 644.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003710 W/g
References
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0437] FEIS by the USDA Forest Service
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 175790
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9000
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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