Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Procellariiformes > Hydrobatidae > Oceanodroma > Oceanodroma leucorhoa

Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Leach's Storm-Petrel; Leach's Storm Petrel)

Synonyms: Hydrobates leucorhoa leucorhoa; Hydrobates leucorhous (homotypic); Hydrobates leucorhous leucorhous; Procellaria leucorhoa (heterotypic); Thalassidroma leachii
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Leach's storm petrel or Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) is a small seabird of the tubenose family. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek. Oceanodroma is from okeanos, "ocean" and dromos, "runner", and leucorhoa is from leukos, "white" and orrhos, "rump".
View Wikipedia Record: Oceanodroma leucorhoa

Infraspecies

Oceanodroma leucorhoa chapmani (Leach's Storm-Petrel) (Attributes)
Oceanodroma leucorhoa cheimomnestes
Oceanodroma leucorhoa leucorhoa (Leach's Storm-Petrel) (Attributes)
Oceanodroma leucorhoa socorroensis (Leach's Storm-Petrel) (Endangered) (Attributes)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Oceanodroma leucorhoa

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
36
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 20.8748
EDGE Score: 3.08534
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  44 grams
Birth Weight [3]  4 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Coastal cliffs and islands, Coastal marine, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  50 %
Diet - Scavenger [4]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Egg Length [5]  1.299 inches (33 mm)
Egg Width [5]  0.945 inches (24 mm)
Fledging [5]  67 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  13,000,000
Incubation [3]  41 days
Mating Display [6]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [6]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  36 years
Migration [7]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [8]  18 inches (.46 m)
Female Maturity [3]  5 years
Male Maturity [3]  5 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
California coastal sage and chaparral Mexico, United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands France Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  
Madeira evergreen forests Portugal Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests  
Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands United Kingdom Afrotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands    

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Japan Japan No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Asio flammeus (Short-eared Owl)[11]
Stercorarius skua (Great Skua)[12]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Actenopsylla suavis[13]
Ceratophyllus hagoromo[13]

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.
♦ 3de 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
♦ 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
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Myers, 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
♦ 8British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 9Diet and trophic position of Leach’s storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa during breeding and moult, inferred from stable isotope analysis of feathers, April Hedd, William A. Montevecchi, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 322: 291–301, 2006
♦ 10Davoren, G.K., et al. "Diets and distributions of Leach's storm-petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) before and after an ecosystem shift in the Northwest Atlantic." Canadian Journal of Zoology 87.9 (2009): 787+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
♦ 11BREEDING SEASON DIET OF SHORT-EARED OWLS IN MASSACHUSETTS, DENVER W. HOLT, Wilson Bull., 105(3), 1993, pp. 490-496
♦ 12Nocturnal foraging by great skuas Stercorarius skua: implications for conservation of storm-petrel populations, Stephen C. Votier, Jonathan E. Crane, Stuart Bearhop, Ana de León, Claire A. McSorley, Eduardo Mínguez, Ian P. Mitchell, Matthew Parsons, Richard A. Phillips, Robert W. Furness, J Ornithol (2005)
♦ 13International 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