AnAge entry for Onychoprion fuscatus
Classification (HAGRID: 00484)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae
Genus: Onychoprion
- Species
- Onychoprion fuscatus
- Common name
- Sooty tern
- Synonyms
- Sterna fuscata
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 35.8 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Most animals do not breed until they are 6-8 years old [0444].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,460 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,460 days
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Clutch size
- 1 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 23.4 g
- Adult weight
- 148 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.11 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [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 824105
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 425648
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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