AnAge entry for Sturnus vulgaris
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Sturnus
- Species
- Sturnus vulgaris
- Common name
- European starling
- IMR
- 0.5/year
- MRDT
- 8 years
- Maximum longevity
- 22.9 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 450
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 12 days
- Clutch size
- 5 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 2
- Weight at hatching
- 6.4 g
- Adult weight
- 74 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.409 days-1 (from logistic function)
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8770 W
- Body mass
- 75.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.011693 W/g
- [0450] Fransson et al. (2010), EURING list of longevity records for European birds
- [0729] Moller (2006), Sociality, age at first reproduction and senescence: comparative analyses of birds (PubMed)
- [0062] Holmes and Ottinger (2003), Birds as long-lived animal models for the study of aging (PubMed)
- [0385] Mayack and Martin (2003), Age-dependent changes in plasma and brain cholinesterase activities of house wrens and European starlings (PubMed)
- [0386] Absil et al. (2003), Effect of age and testosterone on autumnal neurogenesis in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (PubMed)
- [0061] Monaghan and Metcalfe (2000), Genome size and longevity (PubMed)
- [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
- [0387] Gard and Hooper (1993), Age-dependent changes in plasma and brain cholinesterase activities of eastern bluebirds and European starlings (PubMed)
- [0002] Caleb Finch (1990), Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 179637
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- Taxonomy ID 9172
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