Diomedea epomophora

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Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,013 meters (0 to 16,447 feet).[1]

Ecology: Behaviour Breeding is biennial if a chick is successfully reared. Birds return to colonies in October and eggs are laid from late November to late December. Chicks hatch from early February to early March, and fledge in early October to early December. Age of first return to colonies is at least 5 years and the age of first breeding is thought to be around 6-12 years old14. Habitat Breeding It nests on tussock grassland slopes , ridges , and plateaus2,3. Diet It feeds primarily on squid and fish, supplemented by salps , crustacea and carrion8. Foraging range During incubation , breeding birds from Campbell Island foraged mostly within 1,250 km of the colonies over shallow (<1500 m deep) shelf and shelf break waters of the Campbell Plateau north to southern New Zealand and over the Chatham Rise , commuting directly to locally productive sites14.

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List of Habitats:

•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.3     Grassland - Subantarctic   
  
•     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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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 13-Jun-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Diomedea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species and subspecies in this genus:

D. albatrus (Short-Tailed Albatross) · D. amsterdamensis (Amsterdam Island Albatross) · D. antipodensis (Antipodean Albatross) · D. bulleri (Buller's Albatross) · D. bulleri bulleri (Buller's Albatross) · D. cauta (White-Capped Albatross) · D. cauta cauta (Shy Albatross) · D. cauta salvini (Shy Albatross) · D. chlororhynchos (Yellow-Nosed Albatross) · D. chrysostoma (Flat-Billed Albatross) · D. dabbenena (Tristan Albatross) · D. epomophora (Northern Royal Albatross) · D. epomophora epomophora (Southern Royal Albatross) · D. exulans (Cape Wandering Albatross) · D. exulans exulans (Wandering Albatross) · D. gibsoni (Gibson's Albatross) · D. immutabilis (White Gooney Bird) · D. irrorata (Galapagos Albatross) · D. melanophris (Black-Browed Albatross) · D. melanophris impavida (Black-Browed Albatross) · D. melanophris melanophris (Black-Browed Albatross) · D. nigripes (Hawaiian Black-Footed Albatross) · D. palpebrata (Light-Mantled Albatross) · D. sanfordi (Northern Royal Albatross)

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Further Reading

• A list of the birds of Australia: containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author / London: Witherby, 1913. url p. 41.
• A manual of the birds of Australia / by Gregory M. Mathews. .. and. .. Tom Iredale; illus. with coloured and monochrome plates by Lilian Medland. London: Witherby, 1921. url p. 56.
• A manual of the birds of Australia, by Gregory M. Mathews. .. and Tom Iredale. .. Illustrated with coloured and monochrome plates by Lilian Medland. Vol. I. Orders Casuarii to Columbæ. London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1921. url p. 56.
• Austral avian record; a scientific journal devoted primarily to the study of the Australian avifauna. London: Witherby. url p. 52, p. 77.
• Birds / by Spencer Fullerton Baird; with the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. Washington, D.C., 1858. url p. 822.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 78.
• 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. 42, p. 43.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 42, p. 52.
• Ciba Foundation colloquia on ageing. Editors for the Ciba Foundation: G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Margaret P. Cameron, assisted by Joan Etherington. Boston, Little, Brown, 1955-[1959] url p. 101.
• List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum. London: Printed by the order of the Trustees, 1848-1856. url p. 166.
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 13 1884 Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url fig. in text, page 351, p. 351.
• Oceanic birds of South America: a study of species of the related coasts and seas, including the American quadrant of Antarctica, based upon the Brewster-Sanford collection in the American Museum of Natural History / by Robert Cushman Murphy; illustrated from paintings by Francis L. Jaques; photographs, maps, and other drawings. I 1936 New York: Macmillan Co.: c1936. url p. 201, p. 490, fig. 54, p. 548, p. 550, fig. 56, p. 563, p. 575, p. 576, p. 577, p. 580, p. 74, p. xi, p. xviii.
• Oceanus. Woods Hole, Mass., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution url p. 27.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Brazil / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1991. url p. 759.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Chile / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1988. url p. 326.
• Parental care and its evolution in birds. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1952. url p. 179, p. 281.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 741.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 21.
• Proceedings of the eighth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association: held at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 16th to 28th November 1953 / under the auspices of the National Research Council of the Philippines and the Republic of the Philippines. Quezon City: National Research Council of the Philippines, University of the Philippines, 1955. url p. 472.
• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, printer [etc.]1855-60. url .
• Review of information regarding the conservation of living resources of the Antarctic marine ecosystem: final report / John L. Bengtson. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, [1978] url p. 146.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 32.
• Sea-birds: an introduction to the natural history of the sea-birds of the North Atlantic / by James Fisher and R. M. Lockley. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1954. url p. 192, p. 314.
• The Diversity of the Seas: a regional approach. WCMC Biodiversity Series 4 WCMC url p. 107.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url p. 35, p. 70, p. 74.
• The Galathea Deep Sea Expedition, 1950-1952, described by members of the expedition / edited by Anton F. Bruun. .. [et al.], translated from the Danish by Reginald Spink. New York, : Macmillan, [1956] url p. 270.
• The biology of senescence. New York, Rinehart, 1956. url p. 110.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 17 1974 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 234, p. 3.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2010. Diomedea epomophora. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• 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 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 15, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• 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
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9072
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174524
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2480765
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174524
• IUCN ID: 205410
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4299

Footnotes

1. Mean = 681.770 meters (2,236.778 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,071.910 based on 20,121 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2010. Diomedea epomophora. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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