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Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli's Shearwater)

Synonyms: Procellaria diomedea (homotypic); Procellaria kuhlii; Puffinus diomedea; Puffinus kuhli
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) is a bird in the Procellariidae family formerly considered conspecific with Cory's shearwater (Calonectris borealis). It has no subspecies. The genus name Calonectris comes from Ancient Greek kalos, "good" and nectris, "swimmer". The specific diomedea refers to Diomedes, the mythical king. His wife was serially unfaithful while he fought at Troy, so he left to found a city in Italy. When he eventually died, his distraught friends were turned into white seabirds. The English name is for Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli who first described the species.
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Infraspecies

Calonectris diomedea borealis (Cory's Shearwater) (Attributes)
Calonectris diomedea diomedea
Calonectris diomedea gravis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.8431
EDGE Score: 2.47175
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.971 lbs (894 g)
Birth Weight [3]  74 grams
Female Weight [1]  1.834 lbs (832 g)
Male Weight [1]  2.108 lbs (956 g)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  14.9 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Atlantic Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  40 %
Diet - Scavenger [4]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  50 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  2.717 inches (69 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.772 inches (45 mm)
Fledging [1]  3 months 2 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  510,000
Incubation [6]  52 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [5]  24 years 9 months
Migration [7]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [6]  4.133 feet (1.26 m)
Female Maturity [5]  3 years
Male Maturity [5]  3 years

Ecoregions

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Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Larus michahellis (Yellow-legged Gull)[10]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Xenopsylla gratiosa[11]

Range Map

External References

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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.
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♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ 7Myers, 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
♦ 8Jorrit 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.
♦ 9Feeding Spectrum and Trophic Relationships of Short-finned Squid (Illex illecebrosus) in the Northwest Atlantic, Yu. M. Froerman, NAFO Sci. Coun. Studies, 7: 67-75 (1984)
♦ 10POPULATION 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
♦ 11International 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
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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