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Thalassarche chlororhynchos (Yellow-nosed Albatross)

Synonyms: Diomeda chlororhynchos; Diomedea chlororhynchos; Thalassarche chlororhynchus; Thalassarche chlororhyncos; Thalassogeron chlororhynchus
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) is a large seabird in the albatross family. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. Thalassarche is from thalassa, "sea" and arkhe, "command", and chlororhynchos is from khloros, "yellow", and rhunkhos, "bill". This small mollymawk was once considered conspecific with the Indian yellow-nosed albatross and known as the yellow-nosed albatross. Some authorities still consider these taxa to be conspecific, such as the Clements checklist and the SACC, which recognizes that a proposal is needed.
View Wikipedia Record: Thalassarche chlororhynchos

Infraspecies

Thalassarche chlororhynchos bassi
Thalassarche chlororhynchos chlororhynchos

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Thalassarche chlororhynchos

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
50
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.73025
EDGE Score: 3.98605
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.542 lbs (2.06 kg)
Female Weight [3]  5.366 lbs (2.434 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [3]  3 months 11 days
Incubation [3]  76 days
Maximum Longevity [6]  37 years
Migration [5]  Intercontinental
Wing Span [7]  6.56 feet (2 m)
Female Maturity [3]  9 years 1 month

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands France Afrotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  
Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra South Africa, France, Australia Antarctic Tundra    
Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands United Kingdom Afrotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands    

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Gough Island St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Inaccessible Island St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Nightingale Island group St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Tristan da Cunha St Helena (to UK) A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Parapsyllus senellarti[11]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Pruvost, P., Duhamel, G., Palomares, M.L.D., 2005. An ecosystem model of the Kerguelen Islands’ EEZ. In: Palomares, M.L.D., Pruvost, P., Pitcher, T.J., Pauly, D. (eds.) Modeling Antarctic marine ecosystems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 13(7). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 40-64.
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 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.
♦ 5Riede, 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
♦ 6de 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
♦ 7Wildlife As Canon Sees It
♦ 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.
♦ 9CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 10Effect of environmental variability on habitat selection, diet, provisioning behaviour and chick growth in yellow-nosed albatrosses, David Pinaud, Yves Cherel, Henri Weimerskirch, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, Vol. 298: 295–304, 2005
♦ 11International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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