AnAge entry for Gygis alba
Classification (HAGRID: 00393)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae
Genus: Gygis
- Species
- Gygis alba
- Common name
- White tern
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 35.9 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 977
- 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
- 0.8224 W
- Body mass
- 98.1 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.008383 W/g
References
- [0977] Beauchamp (2010), Group-foraging is not associated with longevity in North American birds (PubMed)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0425] Bennett and Harvey (1987), Active and resting metabolism in birds: allometry, phylogeny and ecology
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 176954
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 297809
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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