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Phoebastria albatrus (Short-tailed Albatross)

Synonyms: Diomedea albatrus; Diomedea albatrus albatrus; Diomedea howardae
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the albatrosses of the Southern Ocean. It was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas from skins collected by the Georg Wilhelm Steller (after whom its other common name is derived). Once common, it was brought to the edge of extinction by the trade in feathers, but with protection has recently made a recovery.
View Wikipedia Record: Phoebastria albatrus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Phoebastria albatrus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
47
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.3558
EDGE Score: 3.81603
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.725 lbs (4.411 kg)
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  1
Clutches / Year [6]  1
Fledging [4]  5 months 2 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  1,600
Incubation [5]  64 days
Maximum Longevity [6]  45 years
Migration [7]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [6]  7.511 feet (2.29 m)

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Kuril islands (between Urup and Paramushir) Russia (Asian) A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Senkaku islands Japan A1, A4i, A4ii    
Shantar islands Russia (Asian) A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii
Torishima island Japan A1, A4ii  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan Yes

Prey / Diet

Gonatus onyx (clawed armhook squid)[8]
Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[9]
Taonius borealis[8]
Todarodes pacificus (Japanese common squid)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Calonectris leucomelas (Streaked Shearwater)1
Hippoglossus stenolepis (Pacific halibut)1
Mesoplodon stejnegeri (Stejneger's Beaked Whale)1
Phoebastria immutabilis (Laysan Albatross)1

Range Map

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External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels – www.acap.aq
♦ 6Alaska Department of Fish and Game
♦ 7Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
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