Pterodroma neglecta

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • 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: This species is marine and highly pelagic, rarely approaching land except at colonies. Little is known about its diet , though squid and crustaceans have been recorded as prey . The breeding season is variable depending on locality , forming loose colonies on offshore islands, occupying cliffs or slopes with some vegetation3.

[2].

List of Habitats :

•     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)   
  
•     13     Marine Coastal/Supratidal   
  
•     13.1     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Pterodroma neglecta (Schlegel, 1863)

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

• 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. url p. 154.
• Austral avian record; a scientific journal devoted primarily to the study of the Australian avifauna. London: Witherby. url p. 109, p. 199, p. 203, p. 51, p. 68.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1967 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 33.
• 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. 80.
• 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. 17, p. 18, p. 799.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 66, p. 70.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 119.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 411, p. 416, p. 418, p. 420, p. 445.
• 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. 175, p. 258, p. 704, p. 708, p. 709, p. 710, p. 79, p. xii.
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 102, p. 14, p. 19, p. 56.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 102, p. 14, p. 19, p. 56.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 19, p. 4, p. 7.
• 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.
• 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. 28, p. 296, p. 314.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 109, p. 20.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 5.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 488, p. 90.
• The British bird book: an account of all the birds, nests and eggs found in the British Isles / ed. by F.B. Kirkman. Illustrated by two hundred drawings and numerous photographs. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910-13. url p. 390, p. 554.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url p. 24, p. 36.
• The Natural history of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island / edited by Carl Skottsberg. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1920-1956. url , .
• The natural history of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island / edited by Carl Skottsberg. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1920- url p. 11, p. 2.
• Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Wellington: New Zealand Institute. url p. 83, p. 84.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Pterodroma neglecta. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• 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 10, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Bird Collection
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9010
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-723306
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2480765
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174573
• IUCN ID: 237734
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152248

Footnotes

1. Mean = 550.240 meters (1,805.249 feet), Standard Deviation = 824.700 based on 134,292 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2009. Pterodroma neglecta. 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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