AnAge entry for Zonotrichia leucophrys
Classification (HAGRID: 01197)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Zonotrichia
- Species
- Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Common name
- White-crowned sparrow
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 13.3 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Record longevity belongs to a specimen of the /gambelii/ subspecies that lived 13.3 years in the wild [0427].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 12 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1.5
- Weight at hatching
- 2.7 g
- Adult weight
- 25.82 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.512 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3360 W
- Body mass
- 26.1 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.012874 W/g
References
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0062] Holmes and Ottinger (2003), Birds as long-lived animal models for the study of aging (PubMed)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
- [0427] BBL - Longevity Records of North American Birds
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 179455
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- ADW account
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- Taxonomy ID 44393
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