AnAge entry for Nucifraga caryocatactes
Classification (HAGRID: 00835)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Nucifraga
- Species
- Nucifraga caryocatactes
- Common name
- Spotted nutcracker
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 19.9 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 0450
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One banded individual was found to be at least 19.9 years old [0450].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- Clutch size
- (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- Adult weight
- 183 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.28 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.3460 W
- Body mass
- 147.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.009156 W/g
References
- [0450] Fransson et al. (2010), EURING list of longevity records for European birds
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0729] Moller (2006), Sociality, age at first reproduction and senescence: comparative analyses of birds (PubMed)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 561630
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 56786
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