AnAge entry for Ardea herodias
Classification (HAGRID: 01353)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Ardea
- Species
- Ardea herodias
- Common name
- Great blue heron
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 24.5 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 669 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 669 days
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 2
- Weight at hatching
- 50 g
- Adult weight
- 1,870 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.156 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0061] Monaghan and Metcalfe (2000), Genome size and longevity (PubMed)
- [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 174773
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 56072
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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