Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Procellariiformes > Hydrobatidae > Oceanodroma > Oceanodroma castro

Oceanodroma castro (Band-rumped Storm-Petrel; Band-rumped Storm Petrel)

Synonyms: Hydrobates castro (homotypic); Oceanodroma castro castro; Thalassidroma castro (homotypic)
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The band-rumped storm petrel, Madeiran storm petrel, or Harcourt's storm petrel (Oceanodroma castro) is of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. The band-rumped storm petrel is 19–21 cm in length with a 43–46 cm wingspan, and weighs 44–49 g. It is mainly brownish black with an extensive white rump. Similar to Leach's storm petrel with the forked tail, long wings, but Leach's has a more deeply forked tail, a differently shaped (V-shaped or triangular) white rump, and a 'tern-like' flight, whereas the band-rumped storm-petrel has a more 'shearwater-like' flight.
View Wikipedia Record: Oceanodroma castro

Infraspecies

Oceanodroma castro f. bangsi
Oceanodroma castro f. castro

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
17
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
43
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 33.6114
EDGE Score: 3.54418
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  42 grams
Birth Weight [3]  8 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Tropical Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
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 [3]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  69 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  150,000
Incubation [3]  42 days
Maximum Longevity [3]  36 years
Wing Span [6]  18 inches (.46 m)
Female Maturity [3]  5 years
Male Maturity [3]  5 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Ascension scrub and grasslands United Kingdom Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  
Azores temperate mixed forests Portugal Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests  
Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands France Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  
Galápagos Islands scrubland mosaic Ecuador Neotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Predators

Larus michahellis (Yellow-legged Gull)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Parapsyllus cedei[9]

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
♦ 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.
♦ 8POPULATION STATUS AND DIET OF THE YELLOW-LEGGED GULL IN THE AZORES, VERÓNICA C. NEVES, NADIA MURDOCH & ROBERT W. FURNESS, ARQUIPÉLAGO. Ciências Biológicas e Marinhas Nº 23A (2006): 59-73
♦ 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