Kerguelen petrel
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Pterodroma brevirostris | |
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The Kerguelen petrel (Aphrodroma brevirostris) is a small (36 cm long) slate-grey seabird in the family Procellariidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Aphrodroma. It is a pelagic, circumpolar seabird of the Southern Ocean. It breeds on islands in the southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Taxonomy
The Kerguelen petrel was formally described in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson. He placed it in the genus Procellaria that had been erected for the petrels by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 and coined the binomial name Procellaria brevirostris.[2][3] The Kerguelen petrel was formerly included with the gadfly petrels in the genus Pterodroma[4] and later in the monotypic genre Lugensa but is now placed in the genus Aphrodroma that was introduced for the Kerguelen petrel by Storrs L. Olson in 2000.[5][6] The name Aphrodroma combines the Ancient Greek aphros meaning "sea foam" with -dromos meaning "-racer".The specific epithet brevirostris is from the Latin brevis meaning "short" and -rostris meaning "-billed".[7] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[6]
Breeding
Kerguelen petrels breed colonially on remote islands; colonies are present on Gough Island in the Atlantic Ocean, and Marion Island, Prince Edward Island, Crozet Islands and Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean. The species attends its colonies nocturnally, breeding in burrows in wet soil. The burrows usually face away from the prevailing wind. A single egg is laid per breeding season; the egg is unusually round for the family. The egg is incubated by both parents for 49 days. After hatching the chick fledges after 60 days.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.BirdLife International (2016). "Aphrodroma brevirostris". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T22697888A93645875. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697888A93645875.en.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lesson, René (1831). Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: F.G. Levrault. p. 611.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) Published in 8 livraisons between 1830 and 1831. For the publication date see: Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5. - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 131.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 63.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Olson, Storrs L. (2000). "A new genus for the Kerguelen petrel". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 120: 59–62 [60].
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Petrels, albatrosses". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 50, 77. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
External links
- Kerguelen Petrel Photos
- Specimens of the Kerguelen Petrel in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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