AnAge entry for Poecile atricapillus
Classification (HAGRID: 01113)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Poecile
- Species
- Poecile atricapillus
- Common name
- Black-capped chickadee
- Synonyms
- Parus atricapillus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 12.4 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 579
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, the average longevity is 2.5 years. Record longevity in the wild is 12.4 years [0437].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 180 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 180 days
- Incubation
- 12 days
- Clutch size
- 7 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 1 g
- Adult weight
- 10.4 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.48 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2520 W
- Body mass
- 10.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.024466 W/g
References
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0579] Clapp et al. (1983), Longevity records of North American birds: Columbidae through Paridae
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0437] FEIS by the USDA Forest Service
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 554382
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