Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Procellariiformes > Hydrobatidae > Oceanodroma > Oceanodroma furcata

Oceanodroma furcata (Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel; Fork-tailed Storm Petrel)

Synonyms: Hydrobates furcatus (homotypic); Hydrobates furcatus furcatus; Procellaria furcata (homotypic); Pterodroma furcata
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The fork-tailed storm petrel (Oceanodroma furcata) is a small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. It is 20–23 cm in length, with a wingspan of 46 cm. It is the only storm-petrel gray in color. It spends the rest of the year at sea, usually spending its time over colder waters. It can be seen well offshore down the Pacific coast to central California on the North American side, and down to Japan on the Asian side.
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Infraspecies

Oceanodroma furcata furcata
Oceanodroma furcata plumbea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
12
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
38
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 24.7342
EDGE Score: 3.24782
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  60 grams
Birth Weight [3]  12.1 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Coastal cliffs and islands, Coastal marine, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic, Coastal marine
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  60 %
Diet - Scavenger [4]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  1
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Fledging [1]  63 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  4,000,000
Incubation [5]  52 days
Maximum Longevity [5]  18 years
Migration [6]  Intraoceanic
Wing Span [7]  19 inches (.47 m)
Female Maturity [5]  3 years
Male Maturity [5]  3 years

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Prey / Diet

Electrona antarctica (Lanternfish)[8]
Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[8]
Neocalanus cristatus[7]
Thysanoessa longipes[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[8]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 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
♦ 5de 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
♦ 6Myers, 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
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 8Jorrit 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.
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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