Oceanodroma homochroa

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• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,422 meters (0 to 11,227 feet).[1]

Ecology: Breeds in rock crevices and burrows in colonies on offshore islands. The breeding season is protracted, and eggs are laid asynchronously, with some pairs laying eggs while other pairs are in the midst of chick-rearing. At Southeast Farallon Island, Ashy Storm-petrels visit the colony year-round, and most breeding activity is concentrated in February through October7. At Santa Cruz Island, Ashy Storm-petrel nesting activity spans March through December6,8. Birds feed at sea on planktonic crustaceans and small fish and visit the colony at night. Foraging during the breeding season occurs mainly over continental shelves (92 - 98%), with aggregations coinciding spatially and seasonally with the spawning aggregations of sardines and anchovies14.

List of Habitats :

•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
  
•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.1     Marine Neritic - Pelagic   
  
•     9.2     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs   
  
•     9.3     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel   
  
•     9.4     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy   
  
•     9.5     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy-Mud   
  
•     9.7     Marine Neritic - Macroalgal/Kelp   
  
•     9.9     Marine Neritic - Seagrass (Submerged)   
  
•     10     Marine Oceanic   
  
•     10.1     Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)   
  
•     10.2     Marine Oceanic - Mesopelagic (200-1000m)   
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Biology

Diet

 

Mostly:

• Fish
• Aquatic Invertebrates

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : N/A
• Nest Location: N/A
• Nest Type: N/A
• Clutch Size: 1
• Length of Incubation : 44? days
• Days to Fledge : ?
• Number of Broods: 1

Taxonomy

Synonyms

oceanodroma homochroa • Oceanodroma homochroa (Coues, 1864)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 13-Jun-2007

Similar Species

Most likely to be confused with other storm petrels. Black is larger with deeper wingbeats. Least is smaller with more rapid wingbeats and a wedge-shaped tail. Other species have white rumps.

Members of the genus Oceanodroma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species and subspecies in this genus:

O. castro (Band-Rumped Storm Petrel) · O. castro castro (Band-Rumped Storm Petrel) · O. furcata (Ashy Storm-Petrel) · O. furcata furcata (Fork-Tailed Storm-Petrel) · O. furcata plumbea (Fork-Tailed Storm-Petrel) · O. homochroa (Oceanodroma Homochroa) · O. hornbyi (Hornby's Storm Petrel) · O. leucorhoa (Leach's Fork-Tailed Petrel) · O. leucorhoa beali (Leach's Storm-Petrel) · O. leucorhoa chapmani (Leach's Storm-Petrel) · O. leucorhoa leucorhoa (Leach's Storm-Petrel) · O. leucorhoa socorroensis (Leach's Storm-Petrel) · O. leucorhoa willetti (Leach's Storm-Petrel) · O. macrodactyla (Guadalupe Island Petrel) · O. markhami (Markham's Storm-Petrel) · O. matsudairae (Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel) · O. melania (Black Storm Petrel) · O. microsoma (Least Storm Petrel) · (Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel) · O. monteiroi (Monteiro's Storm-Petrel) · O. tethys (Wedge-Rumped Storm Petrel) · O. tethys tethys (Galapagos Storm Petrel) · O. tristrami (Tristram's Storm Petrel)

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Further Reading

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• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1916. url , .
• Birds of Oregon, by Ira N. Gabrielson. .. and Stanley G. Jewett. .. Corvallis, Or., Pub. by Oregon State College through the O.S.C. Cooperative Association[c1940] url , p. 601.
• Birds of the Pacific coast, including a brief account of the distribution and habitat of one hundred and eighteen birds that are more or less common to the Pacific coast states and British Columbia, many of which are found east by Willard Ayres Eliot; with fifty-six color plates, by R. Bruce Horsfall. 1923 New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923. url p. 174.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 15.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 204.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url p. 5.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 119.
• Catalog of California seabird colonies / by Arthur L. Sowls. .. [et al.]. Washington, D.C.: Coastal Ecosystems Project, Office of Biological Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior: 1980. url p. 24, p. 343, p. iii.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. 13 1948 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. url p. 103.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 355.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 15.
• Check-list of North American birds, prepared by a committee of the American Ornithologists' Union. New York, American Ornithologists' Union, 1910. url p. 57, p. 57.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 23.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 29, p. 799.
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• Color key to North American birds, with bibliographical appendix, by Frank M. Chapman. .. with upwards of 800 drawings, by Chester A. Reed, B.S. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1912. url p. 65.
• Draft environmental impact statement prepared on the proposed Point Reyes/Farallon Islands Marine Sanctuary / Washington: The Office, 1980. url p. 37.
• Effects of man's activities on the marine environment: prepared at the request of Hon. Warren G. Magnuson, chairman, Committee on Commerce, and Hon. Ernest F. Hollings, chairman, National Ocean Policy Study, for the use of the Committee on Commerce and th [prepared by James E. Miekle]. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975. url p. 6.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2005. Oceanodroma homochroa. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UCLA-Dickey Bird Collection (UCLA-Dickey): Bird specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9095
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174634
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2496811
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174634
• IUCN ID: 227500
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNDC04030
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 177986

Footnotes

1. Mean = 152.270 meters (499.573 feet), Standard Deviation = 646.690 based on 3,546 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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