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Procelsterna albivitta (Grey Noddy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The grey noddy or grey ternlet (Procelsterna albivitta) is a seabird belonging to the tern family, Sternidae. It was once regarded as a pale morph of the blue noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) but is now often considered to be a separate species.
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Infraspecies

Procelsterna albivitta albivitta
Procelsterna albivitta imitatrix
Procelsterna albivitta skottsbergii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.72177
EDGE Score: 2.16582
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  53 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Wing Span [3]  21 inches (.53 m)

Prey / Diet

Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0