AnAge entry for Tachycineta thalassina
Classification (HAGRID: 00939)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Tachycineta
- Species
- Tachycineta thalassina
- Common name
- Violet-green swallow
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 9.1 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 363 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Incubation
- 14 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 1.66 g
- Adult weight
- 14.2 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.412 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0427] BBL - Longevity Records of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 178427
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 173226
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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