AnAge entry for Cuculus canorus
Classification (HAGRID: 00538)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Cuculus
- Species
- Cuculus canorus
- Common name
- Common cuckoo, or Eurasian cuckoo
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 12.9 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 450
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- No information is available on life history. Please contact us if you wish to suggest or contribute data.
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8380 W
- Body mass
- 111.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007509 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)
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 177822
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 55661
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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