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Pelecanoides urinatrix (Common Diving Petrel)

Synonyms: Pelecanoides urinatix; Pelecanoides urinator; Procellaria urinatrix

Wikipedia Abstract

The common diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), also known as the smaller diving-petrel or simply the diving-petrel, is a diving petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Africa and islands of the southern Indian Ocean, islands and islets off New Zealand and south-eastern Australian islands.
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Infraspecies

Pelecanoides urinatrix berard
Pelecanoides urinatrix chathamensis
Pelecanoides urinatrix coppingeri
Pelecanoides urinatrix dacunhae
Pelecanoides urinatrix exsul (Common Diving-Petrel) (Attributes)
Pelecanoides urinatrix urinatrix

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
11
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
37
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 21.7652
EDGE Score: 3.12523
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Attributes

Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [2]  1
Egg Length [2]  1.575 inches (40 mm)
Egg Width [2]  1.26 inches (32 mm)
Fledging [2]  54 days
Incubation [5]  54 days
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [2]  9 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Wing Span [6]  15 inches (.393 m)
Adult Weight [2]  105 grams
Birth Weight [3]  21 grams
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  100 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  80 %
Female Maturity [2]  3 years 3 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coorong National Park II 121235 South Australia, Australia
Lavinia Nature Reserve State Reserve II 17390 Tasmania, Australia    
Macquarie Island Nature Reserve Ia 233540 Tasmania, Australia  
Maria Island National Park II 28488 Tasmania, Australia
Tierra Del Fuego National Park II 172861 Argentina

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Île de l'Est French Southern Territories A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Île des Pingouins French Southern Territories A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Îles des Apôtres French Southern Territories A1, A4ii, A4iii    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Macronectes giganteus (Southern Giant Petrel)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ 6Anatomy and Histochemistry of Flight Muscles in a Wing-Propelled Diving Bird, the Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica, Christopher E. Kovacs and Ron A. Meyers, JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 244:109–125 (2000)
♦ 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.
♦ 8Complete trophic segregation between South Georgian and common diving petrels during breeding at Iles Kerguelen, Pierrick Bocher, Yves Cherel, Keith A Hobson, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 208: 249–264, 2000
♦ 9Maximum dive depths of common diving petrels (Pelecanoides urinatrix) during the annual cycle at Mayes Island, Kerguelen, Pierrick Bocher, Bruno Labidoire and Yves Cherel, J. Zool., Lond. (2000) 251, 517-524
♦ 10Amphipod-based food web: Themisto gaudichaudii caught in nets and by seabirds in Kerguelen waters, southern Indian Ocean, Pierrick Bocher, Yves Cherel, Jean-Philippe Labat, Patrick Mayzaud, Suzanne Razouls, Pierre Jouventin, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 223: 261–276, 2001
♦ 11Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 12International 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