Procellaria aequinoctialis

• Overview
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• Bibliography
• More Info
• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

Common Names

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Description

Family Procellariidae

Small- to medium-sized seabirds with a characteristic tubular nasal passage which is used for smell. Most have weak legs , and all are strong fliers.

Physical Description

Habitat

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

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,072 meters (0 to -19,921 feet).Mean = -3,361.040 meters (-11,027.034 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,297.970 based on 9,558 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Ecology: It feeds on cephalopods , crustaceans and fish2. It avoids competition with other seabirds by ranging more widely when searching out food resources , travelling up to 8,000 km on feeding forays in the breeding season13,15. (Ref. 66432)


List of Habitats :4.3Grassland - Subantarctic 10.1Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: October 17, 2001.

Similar Species

Note the tiny white chin patch and the the light bill tip. These two field marks separate this species from Westland Petrel.

Members of the genus Procellaria

There are approximately 27 species in this genus:

P. aequinoctialis (White-Chinned Petrel) · P. aequinoctialis aequinoctialis · P. aequinoctialis conspicillata · P. aequinoctialis steadi · P. bulwerii · P. capensis · P. cinerea (Grey Petrel) · P. cinereus · P. cineria · P. conspicillata (Spectacled Petrel) · P. cookii · P. diomedea · P. forsteri · P. gigantea · P. glacialis · P. glacialoides · P. leachi · P. leachii · P. leucoptera · P. leucorhoa · P. marina · P. mollis · P. parkinsoni (Black Petrel) · P. pelagica · P. solandri · P. torquata · P. westlandica (Westland Black Petrel)

Bibliography

• Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2005. Threatened Birds of the World 2005. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 30/04/2005.

More Info

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2005. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2005. Procellaria aequinoctialis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Pippen, Jeffrey S. Jeff's Nature Page. Accessed December 9, 2007.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
• GBIF-Sweden: Birds of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data: Pangaea

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851947
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174610
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809908
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174610
• IUCN ID: 40278
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152450

Footnotes

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