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Pachyptila crassirostris (Fulmar Prion)

Synonyms: Pseudoprion turtur crassirostris (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The fulmar prion (Pachyptila crassirostris) is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family, found in the southern oceans.
View Wikipedia Record: Pachyptila crassirostris

Infraspecies

Pachyptila crassirostris crassirostris (Fulmar Prion)
Pachyptila crassirostris flemingi
Pachyptila crassirostris pyramidalis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.0753
EDGE Score: 2.31009
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  144 grams
Female Weight [1]  137 grams
Male Weight [1]  151 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  10.2 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  90 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  50 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Wing Span [3]  24 inches (.6 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra Australia, New Zealand Australasia Tundra    
Chatham Island temperate forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests  
Scotia Sea Islands tundra United Kingdom Antarctic Tundra    
Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra South Africa, France, Australia Antarctic Tundra    

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Heard and McDonald Islands Heard Island and McDonald Islands (to Australia) A1, A4ii, A4iii  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand No

Prey / Diet

Histioteuthis atlantica[4]
Hyperiella antarctica[3]
Lepas australis[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Aphrodroma brevirostris (Kerguelen Petrel)1
Halobaena caerulea (Blue Petrel)1
Pachyptila salvini (Salvin's Prion)1
Pygoscelis papua (Gentoo Penguin)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Austromenopon stammeri[5]
Naubates prioni[5]
Parapsyllus nestoris antichthones[6]
Saemundssonia desolata[5]

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.
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 6International Flea Database
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