Pterodroma pycrofti

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Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

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

Ecology: It digs burrows on flat to steep coastal slopes below 150 m , often interspersed with other petrel colonies1,2. Its diet is not well known, although it is known to take squid1.

[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     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 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

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 36.
• The Diversity of the Seas: a regional approach. WCMC Biodiversity Series 4 WCMC url p. 108.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 5, p. 6.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Pterodroma pycrofti. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2010. Pterodroma pycrofti. 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.
• 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.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9000
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-562560
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13850536
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 562560
• IUCN ID: 237737
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9497

Footnotes

1. Mean = 265.440 meters (870.866 feet), Standard Deviation = 566.840 based on 10,755 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2010. Pterodroma pycrofti. 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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