AnAge entry for Hirundo rustica
Classification (HAGRID: 00929)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Hirundo
- Species
- Hirundo rustica
- Common name
- Barn swallow
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 16 years
- Source
- Multiple references, please see bibliography below
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Barn swallows have been shown to suffer an age-dependent decline in offspring quality, feather development, and body size [0724].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 15 days
- Clutch size
- 6 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 2
- Weight at hatching
- 2.3 g
- Adult weight
- 18.3 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.485 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3158 W
- Body mass
- 18.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.017544 W/g
References
- [1143] Nussey et al. (2013), Senescence in natural populations of animals: widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology (PubMed)
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0729] Moller (2006), Sociality, age at first reproduction and senescence: comparative analyses of birds (PubMed)
- [0088] Saino et al. (2003), Humoral immune response in relation to senescence, sex and sexual ornamentation in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) (PubMed)
- [0724] Saino et al. (2002), Mate fidelity, senescence in breeding performance and reproductive trade-offs in the barn swallow
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
- [0723] Moller (1994), Male ornament size as a reliable cue to enhanced offspring viability in the barn swallow (PubMed)
- [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 178448
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 43150
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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