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Pseudobulweria rostrata (Tahiti Petrel)

Synonyms: Procellaria rostrata; Pterodroma rostrata; Pterodroma rostrata rostrata

Wikipedia Abstract

The Tahiti petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata) is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. It is found in American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Mexico, New Caledonia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and possibly the Cook Islands. It is a pelagic bird of the open seas, but nests in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
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Infraspecies

Pseudobulweria rostrata rostrata
Pseudobulweria rostrata trouessarti

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
13
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
50
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 25.5305
EDGE Score: 3.97144
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  409 grams
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
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  15,000
Wing Span [4]  33 inches (.84 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
National Park of American Samoa II   American Samoa, United States    

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Gau Highlands Fiji A1, A2, A4ii  
Massif du Panié New Caledonia (to France) A1, A2, A4ii
Taveuni Highlands Fiji A1, A2

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
New Caledonia New Caledonia No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No

Prey / Diet

Halobates micans[4]
Halobates sericeus (pacific pelagic water strider)[4]
Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Fregetta grallaria (White-bellied Storm Petrel)1
Procelsterna cerulea (Blue-gray Noddy)2
Pterodroma hypoleuca (Bonin Petrel)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Morphological Differences Relative to Ecological Segregation in Petrels (Family: Procellariidae) of the Southern Ocean and Tropical Pacific. Larry B. Spear and David G. Ainley. The Auk Vol. 115, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp. 1017-1033
♦ 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.
♦ 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.
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