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Thalassarche salvini (Salvin's Albatross)

Synonyms: Diomedea cauta salvini; Thalassarche cauta salvini; Thalassogeron salvini

Wikipedia Abstract

Salvin's albatross, or Salvin's mollymawk, Thalassarche salvini, is a large seabird that ranges across the Southern Ocean. A medium-sized mollymawk in the albatross family, it was long considered to be a subspecies of the shy albatross. It is a medium-sized black and white albatross.
View Wikipedia Record: Thalassarche salvini

Infraspecies

Thalassarche salvini eremita
Thalassarche salvini salvini

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Thalassarche salvini

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
38
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.27044
EDGE Score: 3.22214
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.785 lbs (3.985 kg)
Female Weight [3]  7.915 lbs (3.59 kg)
Male Weight [3]  8.819 lbs (4.00 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [3]  11.4 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  4.134 inches (105 mm)
Egg Width [1]  2.638 inches (67 mm)
Fledging [1]  4 months 25 days
Incubation [4]  71 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  40 years

Prey / Diet

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
♦ 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
♦ 3Threlfall, W. and SP Mahoney. 1980. The use of measurements in sexing Common Murres from Newfoundland. Wilson Bulletin 92: 266-268
♦ 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.
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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