AnAge entry for Tympanuchus cupido
Classification (HAGRID: 00698)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Tympanuchus
- Species
- Tympanuchus cupido
- Common name
- Greater prairie chicken
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5 years
- Source
- Multiple references, please see bibliography below
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, its maximal lifespan is probably less than 5 years [0437].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 183 days
- Incubation
- 23 days
- Clutch size
- 13 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 11.5 g
- Adult weight
- 908 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [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 175834
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9004
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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