AnAge entry for Aechmophorus occidentalis
Classification (HAGRID: 01433)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Podicipediformes
Family: Podicipedidae
Genus: Aechmophorus
- Species
- Aechmophorus occidentalis
- Common name
- Western grebe
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 14 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 1
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 23 days
- Clutch size
- 3 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- 30.7 g
- Adult weight
- 1,476 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)
- [0001] Carey and Judge (2000), Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
- [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 174503
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 57236
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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