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Puffinus yelkouan (Yelkouan Shearwater)

Synonyms: Procellaria yelkouan (homotypic); Puffinus puffinus yelkouan; Puffinus yelkouan yelkouan

Wikipedia Abstract

The yelkouan shearwater, Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Puffinus yelkouan

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Puffinus yelkouan

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.99879
EDGE Score: 3.46558
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  383 grams
Birth Weight [2]  45 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  10 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [2]  1
Fledging [2]  71 days
Incubation [4]  50 days
Maximum Longevity [2]  51 years
Migration [5]  Interoceanic
Wing Span [4]  33 inches (.84 m)
Female Maturity [2]  5 years 5 months
Male Maturity [2]  4 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

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

Engraulis encrasicolus (Southern African anchovy)[4]
Meganyctiphanes norvegica (Norwegian krill)[4]
Moroteuthopsis longimana (Giant Warty Squid)[6]
Sardina pilchardus (European pilchard)[4]
Sprattus sprattus (Whitebait)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 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