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Fregetta grallaria (White-bellied Storm Petrel)

Synonyms: Procellaria grallaria

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-bellied storm petrel (Fregetta grallaria) is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It is found in Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Maldives, Namibia, New Zealand, Saint Helena, South Africa, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Its natural habitat is open seas. Taxonomy Fregetta grallaria (Vieillot, 1818) [UK] White-bellied Storm-petrel, [FR] Oceanite a ventre blanc, [DE] Weissbauch-Sturmschwalbe, [ES] Paino Ventriblanco, [NL] Witbuikstormvogeltje (1) (5) Subspecies Description Sounds “Native: Vagrant:
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Infraspecies

Fregetta grallaria grallaria (White-bellied Storm-Petrel) (Attributes)
Fregetta grallaria leucogaster
Fregetta grallaria segethi (White-bellied Storm-Petrel) (Attributes)
Fregetta grallaria titan

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
14
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
40
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 27.3749
EDGE Score: 3.34551
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  49 grams
Birth Weight [2]  10.8 grams
Female Weight [1]  52 grams
Male Weight [1]  47 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  10.6 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  100 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [2]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  1.417 inches (36 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.024 inches (26 mm)
Fledging [1]  68 days
Incubation [1]  41 days
Mating Display [2]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Migration [4]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [5]  19 inches (.47 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands France Afrotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  
Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests Chile Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests    
Scotia Sea Islands tundra United Kingdom Antarctic Tundra    
Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands United Kingdom Afrotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands    

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Gough Island St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Île Saint Paul French Southern Territories A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Inaccessible Island St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Nightingale Island group St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No

Prey / Diet

Halobates micans[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Procelsterna cerulea (Blue-gray Noddy)1
Pseudobulweria rostrata (Tahiti Petrel)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Halipeurus pelagodromae[6]

Range Map

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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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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