AnAge entry for Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Classification (HAGRID: 00960)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae
Genus: Xanthocephalus
- Species
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Common name
- Yellow-headed blackbird
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 18 years
- Source
- Multiple references, please see bibliography below
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 289 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Incubation
- 12 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 3.3 g
- Adult weight
- 75.75 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.502 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 179043
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 84856
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
- Search Google