AnAge entry for Botaurus lentiginosus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Botaurus
- Species
- Botaurus lentiginosus
- Common name
- American bittern
- Maximum longevity
- 8.3 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 576
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 34 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- Adult weight
- 706 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.7412 W
- Body mass
- 600.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004569 W/g
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0425] Bennett and Harvey (1987), Active and resting metabolism in birds: allometry, phylogeny and ecology
- [0576] Clapp et al. (1982), Longevity records of North American birds: Gaviidae through Alcidae
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 174856
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 110661
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