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Pelagodroma marina (White-faced Storm-Petrel; White-faced Storm Petrel)

Synonyms: Procellaria marina
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-faced storm petrel (Pelagodroma marina), also known as white-faced petrel is a small seabird of the storm petrel family. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Pelagodroma.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
12
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
39
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 25.3125
EDGE Score: 3.27004

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  49 grams
Birth Weight [3]  13.2 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Atlantic Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  60 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Egg Length [5]  1.417 inches (36 mm)
Egg Width [5]  1.024 inches (26 mm)
Fledging [5]  63 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  2,700,000
Incubation [5]  56 days
Mating Display [3]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [6]  21 years
Wing Span [6]  16 inches (.41 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Flinders Chase National Park II 81245 South Australia, Australia
Ilhas Selvagens 14214 Portugal      
Islotes del norte de Lanzarote y Famara 44142 Spain    
Lavinia Nature Reserve State Reserve II 17390 Tasmania, Australia    
Wilson's Promontory National Park II 119279 Victoria, Australia

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Gough Island St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Inaccessible Island St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Lanzarote islets Spain A4ii, A4iii, B1ii, B1iii, B2, B3, C2, C4, C6  
Nightingale Island group St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Selvagens Portugal A4ii, A4iii, B1ii, B2, B3, C2, C4, C6    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Lampichthys procerus (Lanternfish)[7]
Maurolicus muelleri (Silvery lightfish)[7]
Nyctiphanes australis[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
4Hamish 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
5Nathan 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
6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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.
8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
9International 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