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Halobaena caerulea (Blue Petrel)

Synonyms: Procellaria caerulea

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue petrel (Halobaena caerulea) is a small seabird in the shearwater and petrel family Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus Halobaena, but is closely allied to the prions.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 20.3237
EDGE Score: 3.05982
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  210 grams
Male Weight [3]  180 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 [5]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [3]  58 days
Incubation [4]  48 days
Wing Span [5]  25 inches (.64 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra Australia, New Zealand Australasia Tundra    
Patagonian steppe Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Scotia Sea Islands tundra United Kingdom Antarctic Tundra    
Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra South Africa, France, Australia Antarctic Tundra    

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Île de l'Est French Southern Territories A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Île des Pingouins French Southern Territories A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Islands of the Golfe du Morbihan French Southern Territories A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii  
Prince Edward Islands Special Nature Reserve South Africa A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Macronectes giganteus (Southern Giant Petrel)[6]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Pruvost, P., Duhamel, G., Palomares, M.L.D., 2005. An ecosystem model of the Kerguelen Islands’ EEZ. In: Palomares, M.L.D., Pruvost, P., Pitcher, T.J., Pauly, D. (eds.) Modeling Antarctic marine ecosystems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 13(7). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 40-64.
♦ 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
♦ 4Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
♦ 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.
♦ 7THE DIETS AND DIETARY SEGREGATION OF SEABIRDS AT THE SUBANTARCTIC CROZET ISLANDS, VINCENT RIDOUX, MARINE ORNITHOLOGY Vol. 22 No. 1 1994
♦ 8Diet and feeding ecology of blue petrels Halobaena caerulea at Iles Kerguelen, Southern Indian Ocean, Yves Cherel, Pierrick Bocher, Colette Trouvé, Henri Weimerskirch, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 228: 283–299, 2002
♦ 9DENSITIES OF ANTARCTIC SEABIRDS AT SEA AND THE PRESENCE OF THE KRILL EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA, BRYAN S. OBST, The Auk 102: 540-549. July 1985
♦ 10Amphipod-based food web: Themisto gaudichaudii caught in nets and by seabirds in Kerguelen waters, southern Indian Ocean, Pierrick Bocher, Yves Cherel, Jean-Philippe Labat, Patrick Mayzaud, Suzanne Razouls, Pierre Jouventin, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 223: 261–276, 2001
♦ 11Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 12International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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