Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Procellariiformes > Diomedeidae > Phoebastria > Phoebastria nigripes

Phoebastria nigripes (Black-footed Albatross)

Synonyms: Diomedea nigripes; Diomedea nigripes nigripes
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae from the North Pacific. All but 2.5% of the population is found among the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is one of three species of albatross that range in the northern hemisphere, nesting on isolated tropical islands. Unlike many albatrosses, it is dark plumaged.
View Wikipedia Record: Phoebastria nigripes

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
45
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.85655
EDGE Score: 3.67443
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Attributes

Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Egg Length [2]  4.252 inches (108 mm)
Egg Width [2]  2.756 inches (70 mm)
Fledging [2]  4 months 20 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  130,000
Incubation [4]  65 days
Mating Display [8]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [4]  41 years
Migration [9]  Intercontinental
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic
Wing Span [10]  6.986 feet (2.13 m)
Adult Weight [2]  7.044 lbs (3.195 kg)
Birth Weight [4]  183 grams
Female Weight [7]  6.592 lbs (2.99 kg)
Male Weight [7]  7.496 lbs (3.40 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [7]  13.7 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [3]  Pacific Ocean
Wintering Habitat [3]  Pelagic
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [5]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  20 %
Diet - Scavenger [5]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [6]  5 years
Male Maturity [6]  5 years

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Mukojima islands Japan A1, A2    
Senkaku islands Japan A1, A4i, A4ii    
Torishima island Japan A1, A4ii  
Yieliu Taiwan A1, A4i  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Galeocerdo cuvier (Tiger-shark)[13]
Homo sapiens (man)[13]
Rattus norvegicus (Norway rat)[13]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paracuaria adunca[14]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de 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
♦ 5Hamish 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
♦ 6Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes), Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels – www.acap.aq
♦ 7Threlfall, W. and SP Mahoney. 1980. The use of measurements in sexing Common Murres from Newfoundland. Wilson Bulletin 92: 266-268
♦ 8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 9Riede, 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
♦ 10Alaska Department of Fish and Game
♦ 11del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 12Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Ecological Informatics 29(1): 45-56. Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Data from: Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 13Jorrit 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.
♦ 14Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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