AnAge entry for Apus apus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Genus: Apus
- Species
- Apus apus
- Common name
- Common swift
- Synonyms
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Hirundo apus
- IMR
- 0.1/year
- MRDT
- 5 years
- Maximum longevity
- 21.1 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 450
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Incubation
- Clutch size
- (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- Adult weight
- 37.6 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.262 days-1 (from logistic function)
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4372 W
- Body mass
- 44.9 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.009737 W/g
- [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)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
- [0002] Caleb Finch (1990), Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
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- ITIS 178010
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- Taxonomy ID 8895
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