AnAge entry for Buteo lineatus
Classification (HAGRID: 00234)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Buteo
- Species
- Buteo lineatus
- Common name
- Red-shouldered hawk
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 22.4 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One banded animal was 22.4 years of age when it was found dead [0427]. Besides, one animal was caught and released at age 20 [0444].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 33 days
- Clutch size
- 3.5 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 35 g
- Adult weight
- 607 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.1100 W
- Body mass
- 658.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003207 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)
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0427] BBL - Longevity Records of North American Birds
- [0440] New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 175359
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 223475
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