Pterodroma longirostris

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Overview

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • Zoogeographic Region: Juan Fernandez Islands • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,308 meters (0 to 17,415 feet).[1]

Ecology: It nests in burrows on slopes in Dicksonia externa fern-forest and adjacent grasslands at elevations of 700-1,1120 m 6. Breeding begins in November. One egg is laid in late November-early December with hatching in late January-mid February. Fledging occurs in May. It forms mixed-species colonies with P. externa1, typically forming small monospecific clusters of burrows in shallow soils within the larger P. externa colony7. It feeds in pelagic waters primarily on squid and small fish7.

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List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     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

Synonyms

Pterodroma longirostris (Stejneger, 1893)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 13-Jun-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pterodroma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 51 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. alba (Phoenix Petrel) · P. arminjoniana (South Trinidade Petrel) · P. arminjoniana arminjoniana (South Trinidade Petrel) · P. aterrima (Mascarene Black Petrel) · P. atrata (Henderson Petrel) · P. axillaris (Chatham Island 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 (White-Naped Petrel) · P. cookii (Blue-Footed Petrel) · P. cookii cookii (Blue-Footed Petrel) · P. cookii orientalis (Cook's Petrel) · P. defilippiana (Juan Fernandez Petrel) · P. externa (Juan Fernández Petrel) · P. externa externa (Juan Fernandez Petrel) · P. feae (Fea's Soft-Plumaged Petrel) · P. hasitata (Black-Capped Petrel) · P. heraldica (Herald Petrel) · P. hypoleuca (Salvin's Petrel) · P. hypoleuca hypoleuca (Salvin's Petrel) · P. incerta (Schlegel's Petrel) · P. inexpectata (Peales (Mottled) Petrel) · P. lessonii (White-Headed Petrel) · P. leucoptera (Collared Petrel) · P. leucoptera leucoptera (White-Winged Petrel) · P. longirostris (Stejneger's Petrel) · P. macgillivrayi (Fiji Petrel) · P. macroptera (Great-Winged Petrel) · 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 mollis (Southern Soft-Plumaged Petrel) · P. neglecta (Variable Petrel) · P. neglecta neglecta (Variable Petrel) · P. nigripennis (Black-Winged Petrel) · P. occulta (Vanuatu Petrel) · P. phaeopygia (Hawaiian Dark-Rumped Petrel) · P. phaeopygia phaeopygia (Dark-Rumped Petrel) · P. phaeopygia sandwichensis (Hawaiian Dark-Rumped Petrel) · 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

• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 119.
• 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. 83.
• 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. 19, p. 772.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 77.
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 54, p. 92.
• 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. 474.
• The Diversity of the Seas: a regional approach. WCMC Biodiversity Series 4 WCMC url p. 102.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 300.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2006. Pterodroma longirostris. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2010. Pterodroma longirostris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 12, 2008. 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.
• 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.
• 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 12, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9003
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174582
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13850536
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174582
• IUCN ID: 237729
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152261

Footnotes

1. Mean = 550.700 meters (1,806.759 feet), Standard Deviation = 825.970 based on 134,551 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2010. Pterodroma longirostris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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