AnAge entry for Aphelocoma californica
Classification (HAGRID: 00811)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Aphelocoma
- Species
- Aphelocoma californica
- Common name
- Western scrub jay
- Synonyms
- Aphelocoma coerulescens superciliosa
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 15.8 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 445
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 545 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 18 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 5.4 g
- Adult weight
- 88.7 g
- Postnatal growth rate
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
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 554128
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 142466
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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