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Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater)

Synonyms: Procellaria puffinus (homotypic); Puffinus anglorum; Puffinus mcgalli; Puffinus puffinus puffinus
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters were called Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn) for the cured carcasses of nestling shearwaters. The Atlantic puffin acquired the name much later, possibly because of its similar nesting habits.
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Infraspecies

Puffinus puffinus canariensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.27081
EDGE Score: 2.11273
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  419 grams
Birth Weight [3]  45 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Atlantic Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  20 %
Diet - Scavenger [4]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  80 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  71 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  740,000
Incubation [3]  51 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [3]  50 years
Migration [7]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [8]  32 inches (.82 m)
Female Maturity [3]  5 years
Male Maturity [3]  4 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Prey / Diet

Ammodytes marinus (sand eel)[9]
Clupea harengus (Yawling)[9]
Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[10]
Sprattus sprattus (Whitebait)[9]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Larus marinus (Great Black-backed Gull)[11]
Stercorarius skua (Great Skua)[12]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Myers, 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
♦ 8British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 9del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 10Jorrit 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.
♦ 11Changes in the diet of Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinus on Skomer Island 1958- 1992, Jim Poole, SEABIRD 17; 50-55
♦ 12Nocturnal foraging by great skuas Stercorarius skua: implications for conservation of storm-petrel populations, Stephen C. Votier, Jonathan E. Crane, Stuart Bearhop, Ana de León, Claire A. McSorley, Eduardo Mínguez, Ian P. Mitchell, Matthew Parsons, Richard A. Phillips, Robert W. Furness, J Ornithol (2005)
♦ 13International Flea Database
♦ 14Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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