Pterodroma hasitata

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Overview

Endangered

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

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

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 864 meters (0 to 2,835 feet).[1]

Biome: Terrestrial ; Marine

Ecology: It nests (starting in December) colonially in cliff burrows, often within montane forest at 1,500-2,000 m , but up to 2,300 m in the Dominican Republic7. Nesting birds commute large distances from breeding to foraging sites3. It is primarily nocturnal and crepuscular, feeding on fish, invertebrate swarms , fauna associated with Sargassum seaweed reefs3, and squid5. It is attracted to localised upwellings , where the mixing of surface and deep oceanic waters produces nutrient-rich areas3.[2]


List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane 10.1Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)

Biology

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Bermuda Petrel, Greater Shearwater

Members of the genus Pterodroma

There are approximately 70 species in this genus:

P. alba (Phoenix Petrel) · P. arminjoniana (South Trinidade Petrel) · P. arminjoniana arminjoniana (South Trinidade Petrel) · P. arminjoniana heraldica · P. aterrima (Mascarene Black Petrel) · P. atrata (Henderson Petrel) · P. axillaris (Chatham Islands Petrel) · P. baraui (Barau's Petrel) · P. becki (Solomon Islands Petrel) · P. brevipes (Collared Petrel) · P. brevirostris (Kerguelen Petrel) · P. cahow (Bermuda Petrel) · P. caribbaea (Jamaica Petrel) · P. cervicalis (Kermadec White-Necked Petrel) · P. cooki · P. cookii (Blue-Footed Petrel) · P. cookii cookii (Blue-Footed Petrel) · P. cookii orientalis (Cook's Petrel) · P. cooki defilippiana · P. defilippiana (Juan Fernandez Petrel) · P. externa (Juan Fernández Petrel) · P. externa cervicalis · P. externa externa (Juan Fernández Petrel) · P. externa ssp · P. feae (Fea's Soft-Plumaged Petrel) · P. hasitata (Black-Capped Petrel) · P. hasitata caribbaea · P. hasitata hasitata · P. heraldica · P. hypoleuca (Salvin's Petrel) · P. hypoleuca hypoleuca (Salvin's Petrel) · P. incerta (Schlegel's Petrel) · P. inexpectata (Peales (Mottled) Petrel) · P. jugabilis · P. lessoni · P. lessonii (White-Headed Petrel) · P. leucoptera (White-Winged Petrel) · P. leucoptera brevipes · P. leucoptera caledonica · P. leucoptera hypoleuca · P. leucoptera leucoptera (White-Winged Petrel) · P. longirostris (Stejneger's Petrel) · P. macgillivrayi · P. macroptera (Great-Winged Petrel) · P. macroptera gouldi · P. macroptera macroptera (Great-Winged Petrel) · P. madeira (Zino's Soft-Plumaged Petrel) · P. magentae (Chatham Island Petrel) · P. mollis (Southern Soft-Plumaged Petrel) · P. mollis deserta · P. mollis dubia · P. mollis feae · P. mollis madeira · P. mollis mollis (Southern Soft-Plumaged Petrel) · P. neglecta (Kermadec Petrel) · P. neglecta juana · P. neglecta neglecta (Kermadec Petrel) · P. nigripennis (Black-Winged Petrel) · P. occulta · P. phaeopygia (Hawaiian Dark-Rumped Petrel) · P. phaeopygia phaeopygia (Dark-Rumped Petrel) · P. phaeopygia sandwichensis (Hawaiian Dark-Rumped Petrel) · P. phillipii · P. pycrofti (Pycroft's Petrel) · P. rostrata (Tahiti Petrel) · P. rostrata rostrata (Tahiti Petrel) · P. rupinarum (Large St Helena Petrel) · P. sandwichensis (Hawaiian Petrel) · P. solandri (Bird of Providence) · P. ultima (Murphy's Petrel)

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Further Reading

• A hand-list of British birds, with an account of the distribution of each species in the British Isles and abroad. By Ernst Hartert, F. C. R. Jourdain, N. F. Ticehurst and H. F. Withersby. London, Witherby, 1912. ENG url p. 154.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• 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.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 106, p. 110.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) ENG url p. 203.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 173.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. ENG url p. 76, p. 77.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 11.
• Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
• Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. ENG url p. 24.
• Faune de France. [t.] 1-68. Paris, 1921-66. FRE url p. 396.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes, by Arthur Cleveland Bent. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1922. ENG url p. 106.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 19.
• Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)
• Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands / New York Academy of Sciences. New York, N.Y.: The Academy, 1919- url p. 276.
• Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. ENG url p. 109.
• The birds of the British Isles and their eggs. by T.A. Coward; with 213 accurately coloured illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and others, reproduced from Lord Lilford's work Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands, and 69 photograp London; F. Warne, 1920. ENG url p. 294.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Pterodroma hasitata. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Birdlife International 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, and quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds, and quot; 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.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• EMAN Provider: PIROP (Shipboard Surveys)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851937
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174567
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14602331
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174567
• IUCN ID: 18671
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNDB03010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9355

Footnotes

1. Mean = -273.040 meters (-895.801 feet), Standard Deviation = 765.960 based on 97 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Birdlife International 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]

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