AnAge entry for Phoebastria nigripes
Classification (HAGRID: 01446)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Diomedeidae
Genus: Phoebastria
- Species
- Phoebastria nigripes
- Common name
- Black-footed albatross
- Synonyms
- Diomedea nigripes
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 42.1 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,825 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,825 days
- Incubation
- 65 days
- Clutch size
- 1 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 182.5 g
- Adult weight
- 2,800 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0977] Beauchamp (2010), Group-foraging is not associated with longevity in North American birds (PubMed)
- [0427] BBL - Longevity Records of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 554379
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 54021
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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