AnAge entry for Riparia riparia
Classification (HAGRID: 00935)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Riparia
- Species
- Riparia riparia
- Common name
- Bank swallow
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 10.1 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 0450
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, most animals do not live more than 4 years [0444].
Older individuals have higher quality feathers, and there appears to be a selection pressure towards feather quality, since young individuals with poorer feather quality do not reach old age. Furthermore, moult duration also increased with age [1387].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 15 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- 1.6 g
- Adult weight
- 12.7 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2328 W
- Body mass
- 13.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.017118 W/g
References
- [1387] Sz?p et al. (2019), Older birds have better feathers: A longitudinal study on the long-distance migratory Sand Martin, Riparia riparia (PubMed)
- [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)
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 178436
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 88110
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