AnAge entry for Sialia mexicana
Classification (HAGRID: 00992)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Sialia
- Species
- Sialia mexicana
- Common name
- Western bluebird
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 8.7 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- 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
- 0.4230 W
- Body mass
- 27.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.015382 W/g
References
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0427] BBL - Longevity Records of North American Birds
- [0437] FEIS by the USDA Forest Service
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 179806
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 189536
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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