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Puffinus bulleri (Buller's Shearwater)

Synonyms: Ardenna bulleri (homotypic); Ardenna bulleri bulleri
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Buller's shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) is a Pacific species of seabird in the family Procellariidae; it is also known as the grey-backed shearwater or New Zealand shearwater. A member of the black-billed wedge-tailed Thyellodroma group, among the larger shearwaters of the genus Ardenna, it forms a superspecies with the wedge-tailed shearwater (A. pacificus).
View Wikipedia Record: Puffinus bulleri

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Puffinus bulleri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
46
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.21807
EDGE Score: 3.71045
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  326 grams
Birth Weight [2]  61 grams
Female Weight [1]  307 grams
Male Weight [1]  345 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  12.4 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [2]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  2.559 inches (65 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.693 inches (43 mm)
Fledging [1]  90 days
Incubation [4]  51 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [1]  8 years
Migration [5]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [4]  39 inches (1 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands France Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Reserva Nacional de Paracas Peru A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Cololabis saira (Skipper)[4]
Nyctiphanes australis[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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