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Pterodroma cookii (Cook's Petrel)

Synonyms: Pterodroma cooki; Pterodroma cooki cooki; Pterodroma cookii orientalis
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cook's petrel (blue-footed petrel) (Pterodroma cookii), is a Procellariform seabird. It is a member of the gadfly petrels and part of the subgroup known as Cookilaria petrels, which includes the very similar Stejneger's petrel.
View Wikipedia Record: Pterodroma cookii

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Pterodroma cookii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
49
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.5641
EDGE Score: 3.91714
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  183 grams
Female Weight [1]  194 grams
Male Weight [1]  173 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  12.1 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  80 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  670,000
Incubation [4]  48 days
Migration [5]  Intraoceanic
Wing Span [4]  31 inches (.79 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands France Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Aleutian Islands Biosphere Reserve 2720489 Alaska, United States    
Point Reyes National Seashore II 27068 California, United States

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Reserva Nacional de Paracas Peru A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[6]
Spirula spirula (ram's horn squid)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pterodroma solandri (Providence Petrel)1

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.
♦ 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Myers, 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
♦ 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.
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