AnAge entry for Melospiza melodia
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Melospiza
- Species
- Melospiza melodia
- Common name
- Song sparrow
- Synonyms
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Zonotrichia melodia
- Maximum longevity
- 11.3 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 580
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 12 days
- Clutch size
- 4 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 2.5
- Weight at hatching
- 1.5 g
- Adult weight
- 22.7 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2500 W
- Body mass
- 19.1 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.013089 W/g
- [1143] Nussey et al. (2013), Senescence in natural populations of animals: widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology (PubMed)
- [0907] Keller et al. (2008), Testing evolutionary models of senescence in a natural population: age and inbreeding effects on fitness components in song sparrows (PubMed)
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0580] Klimkiewicz and Futcher (1987), Longevity records of North American birds: Coerbinae through Estrildidae
- [0038] Nol and Smith (1987), Effects of age and breeding experience on seasonal reproductive success in the song sparrow
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 179492
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- Taxonomy ID 44397
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