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Pterodroma hypoleuca (Bonin Petrel)

Synonyms: Oestrelata hypoleuca; Pterodroma hypoleuca hypoleuca
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The Bonin petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae. It is a small gadfly petrel. 995,000 individuals, about 99% of the total population, breed on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, while 5,000 individuals (1% of the population) breed off the coast of Japan on the Bonin and Volcano Islands. Its secretive habits and limited range have resulted in few studies and many aspects of the species' biology are poorly known.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.8324
EDGE Score: 2.69682
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  169 grams
Birth Weight [1]  8 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [1]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [3]  82 days
Incubation [1]  49 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years
Migration [4]  Intraoceanic
Wing Span [5]  26 inches (.67 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Yakushima Island Biosphere Reserve   Japan    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No

Prey / Diet

Halobates sericeus (pacific pelagic water strider)[5]
Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Procelsterna cerulea (Blue-gray Noddy)1
Pseudobulweria rostrata (Tahiti Petrel)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
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