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Pterodroma solandri (Providence Petrel)

Synonyms: Pterodroma phillipii

Wikipedia Abstract

The providence petrel (Pterodroma solandri) is a species that burrows in one location; isolated Lord Howe Island, some 800 km from the Australian mainland in the Tasman Sea. Of roughly pigeon like proportions (40 cm), the bird was once also numerous on Norfolk Island. However, its population there was consumed by starving transportees, sent to Norfolk Island as way of punishment. Nonetheless it numbers some 100,000 on Lord Howe Island. Graceful and supple in flight, the providence petrel has a cumbersome propensity on the ground, making it vulnerable to attack by predators.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
49
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.894
EDGE Score: 3.94306
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.041 lbs (472 g)
Female Weight [1]  424 grams
Male Weight [1]  1.146 lbs (520 g)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  22.6 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  70 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Migration [4]  Intraoceanic
Wing Span [3]  39 inches (1 m)

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Phillip Island (Norfolk Island) Norfolk Island (to Australia) A1, A4i, A4iii  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Austromenopon popellus[7]
Naubates thieli[7]

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.
♦ 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
♦ 5ADAM J. BESTER, DAVID PRIDDEL & NICK I. KLOMP, Diet and Foraging Behaviour of the Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri Marine Ornithology 39: 163–172 (2011)
♦ 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.
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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