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Pterodroma leucoptera (Gould's Petrel)

Synonyms: Procellaria leucoptera (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Gould's petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera) is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. The common name commemorates the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould (1804-1881).
View Wikipedia Record: Pterodroma leucoptera

Infraspecies

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Pterodroma leucoptera

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.01547
EDGE Score: 3.46767

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  148 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [3]  81 days
Incubation [3]  47 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  20 years
Migration [5]  Intraoceanic
Wing Span [4]  28 inches (.7 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  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Dent de Saint-Vincent New Caledonia (to France) A1, A2, A4ii  
Massifs du Grand Sud: entre le mont Humboldt et la rivière Bleue New Caledonia (to France) A1, A2, A4ii

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Naubates damma[7]
Trabeculus hexakon[7]

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
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
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
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