Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Laridae > Procelsterna > Procelsterna cerulea

Procelsterna cerulea (Blue-gray Noddy; Blue Noddy)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) is a species of tern in the family Sternidae. It is also known as the blue-grey noddy. It is found in American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga (Niua), Tuvalu and Hawaii. It has occurred as a vagrant in Australia and Japan. Its natural habitat is open, shallow seas in tropical and subtropical regions. There are five listed subspecies: P. c. saxatilis (Fisher, 1903): Marcus Island & north Marshall Islands to northwest Hawaii
View Wikipedia Record: Procelsterna cerulea

Infraspecies

Procelsterna cerulea cerulea
Procelsterna cerulea murphyi
Procelsterna cerulea nebouxi
Procelsterna cerulea saxatilis
Procelsterna cerulea teretirostris

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.72177
EDGE Score: 2.16582
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  53 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  14 years
Wing Span [3]  21 inches (.53 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
National Park of American Samoa II   American Samoa, United States    

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Île Matthew New Caledonia (to France) A4i    
Phillip Island (Norfolk Island) Norfolk Island (to Australia) A1, A4i, A4iii  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No

Prey / Diet

Halobates micans[3]
Halobates sericeus (pacific pelagic water strider)[3]
Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Fregetta grallaria (White-bellied Storm Petrel)1
Pseudobulweria rostrata (Tahiti Petrel)2
Pterodroma hypoleuca (Bonin Petrel)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Actornithophilus ceruleus[6]

Range Map

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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Species 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