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Thalassarche bulleri (Buller's Albatross)

Synonyms: Diomedea bulleri; Diomedea bulleri bulleri

Wikipedia Abstract

Buller's albatross or Buller's mollymawk (Thalassarche bulleri), is a small mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds on islands around New Zealand, and feeds in the seas off Australia and the South Pacific.
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Infraspecies

Thalassarche bulleri bulleri
Thalassarche bulleri platei

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.31233
EDGE Score: 2.81089
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.177 lbs (2.802 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  231 grams
Female Weight [1]  5.743 lbs (2.605 kg)
Male Weight [1]  6.614 lbs (3.00 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  15.2 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [2]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  4.016 inches (102 mm)
Egg Width [1]  2.598 inches (66 mm)
Fledging [1]  69 days
Incubation [4]  70 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  51 years
Wing Span [5]  6.855 feet (2.09 m)
Female Maturity [1]  8 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Chatham Island temperate forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Notiopsylla peregrinus[8]
Parapsyllus longicornis[8]
Parapsyllus lynnae lynnae[8]

Range Map

External References

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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 4Recovery plan for albatrosses in the Chatham Islands, Chatham Island mollymawk, northern royal albatross, Pacific mollymawk, 2001 - –2011, New Zealand Department of Conservation
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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.
♦ 7Buller’s Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri), Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels - www.acap.aq
♦ 8International Flea Database
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