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Haematopus bachmani (Black Oystercatcher)

Synonyms: Haematopus ater bachmani; Haematopus ostralegus bachmani; Haematopus palliatus frazari; Scolopax nigra
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The black oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) is a conspicuous black bird found on the shoreline of western North America. It ranges from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to the coast of the Baja California peninsula.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.89696
EDGE Score: 2.06648
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.202 lbs (545 g)
Birth Weight [3]  34 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Rocky intertidal
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Coast
Wintering Habitat [2]  Rocky intertidal
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  90 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [1]  30 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  10,000
Incubation [3]  26 days
Mating System [5]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  16 years
Female Maturity [3]  5 years
Male Maturity [3]  5 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Chiniak Bay USA A1, A4i
Cleland Island and Southeast Clayoquot Sound Canada A1, A4i
Kyuquot Channel Islets Canada A4i
Moore and Byers Islands and Banks Canada A4i, A4ii, A4iii

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Corvus corax (Northern Raven)[6]
Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon)[6]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Nadejdolepis alaskensis[9]
Parvatrema obscurus <Unverified Name>[9]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 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
♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 8Wootton, J. Timothy. "Estimates and tests of per capita interaction strength: diet, abundance, and impact of intertidally foraging birds." Ecological Monographs 67.1 (1997): 45+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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