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Pachyptila desolata (Antarctic Prion)

Synonyms: Procellaria desolata (homotypic); Pseudoprion desolatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Antarctic prion (Pachyptila desolata) also known as the dove prion, or totorore in Maori, is the largest of the prions, a genus of small petrels of the Southern Ocean.
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Infraspecies

Pachyptila desolata altera
Pachyptila desolata banksi
Pachyptila desolata desolata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.41379
EDGE Score: 2.12987
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  156 grams
Birth Weight [2]  30 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  90 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [2]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  1.85 inches (47 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.378 inches (35 mm)
Fledging [1]  50 days
Incubation [4]  46 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display
Migration [5]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [6]  25 inches (.635 m)
Female Maturity [1]  5 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra Australia, New Zealand Australasia Tundra    
Scotia Sea Islands tundra United Kingdom Antarctic Tundra    
Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra South Africa, France, Australia Antarctic Tundra    
Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands United Kingdom Afrotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coorong National Park II 121235 South Australia, Australia
Macquarie Island Nature Reserve Ia 233540 Tasmania, Australia  
Malindi-Watamu Biosphere Reserve 48433 Kenya  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Falco novaeseelandiae (New Zealand Falcon)[13]
Thalassarche melanophris (Black-browed Albatross)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
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♦ 6Gust soaring as a basis for the flight of petrels and albatrosses (Procellariiformes), Colin J. Pennycuick, Avian Science Vol. 2 No. 1: (2002)
♦ 7Jorrit 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.
♦ 8Food and feeding ecology of the sympatric thin-billed Pachyptila belcheri and Antarctic P. desolata prions at Iles Kerguelen, Southern Indian Ocean, Yves Cherel, Pierrick Bocher, Claude De Broyer, Keith A. Hobson, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 228: 263–281, 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
♦ 10Diet 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
♦ 11Amphipod-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
♦ 12CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 13Hyde, N.H.S.; Worthy, T.H. 2010. The diet of New Zealand falcons (Falco novaeseelandiae) on the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Notornis 57(1): 19-26.
♦ 14Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 15International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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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