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Sula leucogaster (Brown Booby)

Synonyms: Pelecanus leucogaster (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown booby (Sula leucogaster) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. They present sexual dimorphism. The female booby reaches about 80 centimetres (31 in) in length, its wingspan measures up to 150 cm (4.9 ft), and they can weigh up to 1,300 g (2.9 lb). The male booby reaches about 75 centimetres (30 in) in length, its wingspan measures up to 140 cm (4.6 ft), and they can weigh up to 1,000 g (2.2 lb).
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Infraspecies

Sula leucogaster brewsteri (Brewster's booby) (Attributes)
Sula leucogaster etesiaca
Sula leucogaster leucogaster (Brown booby) (Attributes)
Sula leucogaster plotus
Sula leucogaster websteri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.554
EDGE Score: 2.60668
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.791 lbs (1.266 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  53 grams
Female Weight [1]  2.963 lbs (1.344 kg)
Male Weight [1]  2.621 lbs (1.189 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  13 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Coastal cliffs and islands, Coastal marine, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Tropical Coasts
Wintering Habitat [2]  Coastal marine, Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  30 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Egg Length [1]  2.402 inches (61 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.575 inches (40 mm)
Fledging [1]  3 months 8 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  500,000
Incubation [5]  41 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  27 years
Speed [6]  21.117 MPH (9.44 m/s)
Wing Span [6]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Female Maturity [5]  3 years 6 months
Male Maturity [5]  3 years 6 months

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 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
♦ 6Species- and sex-specific differences in foraging behaviour and foraging zones in blue-footed and brown boobies in the Gulf of California, Henri Weimerskirch, Scott A. Shaffer, Yann Tremblay, Daniel P. Costa, Hélène Gadenne, Akiko Kato, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Katsufumi Sato, David Aurioles, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 391: 267–278, 2009
♦ 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.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9Species 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