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Pterodroma feae (Fea's Petrel; Cape Verde Petrel)

Synonyms: Oestrelata feae (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Fea's petrel (Pterodroma feae), is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, Pterodroma. It was previously considered to be a subspecies of the soft-plumaged petrel, P. mollis, but they are actually not closely related at all. However, P. feae is very closely related to Zino's petrel and Desertas petrel, two other species recently split from P. mollis. The gadfly petrels are named for their speedy weaving flight, as if evading horseflies and the flight action is also reflected in the genus name Pterodroma, from Ancient Greek pteron, "wing" and dromos, " runner". This species is named after the Italian zoologist Leonardo Fea (1852-1903), whose surname is pronounced "FAY-ah".
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Infraspecies

Pterodroma feae deserta
Pterodroma feae feae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.72474
EDGE Score: 2.59894
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  254 grams
Birth Weight [1]  60 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Atlantic Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Fledging [1]  3 months 5 days
Incubation [1]  53 days
Migration [6]  Intraoceanic
Wing Span [4]  36 inches (.91 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ilhas Desertas 27927 Portugal      
Ilhéu da Praia - Ilha Graciosa 30 Portugal      
Ilhéu de Baixo - Ilha Graciosa 74 Portugal      

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Central mountain range of Ilha de São Nicolau Cape Verde A1, A2, A4ii  
Ilhas Desertas Portugal A1, A2, A4ii, B1ii, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6  
Volcano area, Ilha do Fogo Cape Verde A1, A2, A4ii  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey Yes

Prey / Diet

Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 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.
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 6Myers, 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
♦ 7Jorrit 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.
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