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Cerorhinca monocerata (Rhinoceros Auklet)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) is a seabird and a close relative of the puffins. It is the only living species of the genus Cerorhinca. Given its close relationship with the puffins, the common name Rhinoceros Puffin has been proposed for the species. It ranges widely across the North Pacific, feeding on small fish and nesting in seabird colonies. Its name is derived from a horn-like extension of the beak.
View Wikipedia Record: Cerorhinca monocerata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.06 lbs (483 g)
Birth Weight [2]  55 grams
Female Weight [1]  1.01 lbs (456 g)
Male Weight [1]  1.12 lbs (510 g)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  11.8 %
Female Maturity [2]  3 years
Male Maturity [2]  3 years
Clutch Size [2]  1
Clutches / Year [2]  1
Incubation [2]  45 days
Maximum Longevity [2]  10 years
Migration [3]  Intracontinental
Wing Span [4]  24 inches (.615 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Map Climate Land
Use
Baja California desert Mexico Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
California coastal sage and chaparral Mexico, United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests Russia Palearctic Boreal Forests/Taiga
Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga Russia Palearctic Boreal Forests/Taiga
South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests Russia Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Ib 2347132 Alaska, United States
Aleutian Islands Biosphere Reserve 2720489 Alaska, United States    
Cabrillo National Monument V 149 California, United States
California Coast Ranges Biosphere Reserve 153447 California, United States  
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary   California, United States
Channel Islands National Park II 139010 California, United States
Elkhorn Slough Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve Ia 964 California, United States  
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge IV 352 California, United States
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Ib 591068 Alaska, United States
Gulf Islands National Park National Park Reserve II 8785 British Columbia, Canada
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve II 366714 British Columbia, Canada
Olympic Biosphere Reserve II 922805 Washington, United States
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada
Point Reyes National Seashore II 27068 California, United States
Redwood National Park II 77867 California, United States
San Juan Island National Historical Park III 1674 Washington, United States
Santa Cruz Island Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve 46021 California, United States
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area V 38440 California, United States

Important Bird Areas

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Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Anthony Island Canada A4ii, A4iii  
Duke of Edinburgh Ecological Reserve Canada A4ii, A4iii
Englefield Bay Islands Canada A4ii, A4iii
Kuril islands (between Urup and Paramushir) Russia (Asian) A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Lucy Islands Canada A4ii, A4iii
Matsumaekojima islet Japan A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Moore and Byers Islands and Banks Canada A4i, A4ii, A4iii
Scott Island Group Canada A4ii, A4iii    
Teurito island Japan A4i, A4ii, A4iii    
Tyuleniy island Russia (Asian) A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Yururito and Moyururito islets Japan A4i, A4ii

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website Map
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Japan Japan No

Prey / Diet

Allosmerus elongatus (Whitebait smelt)[5]
Ammodytes hexapterus (Stout sand lance)[5]
Clupea harengus (Yawling)[5]
Clupea pallasii pallasii (Pacific herring)[6]
Cololabis saira (Skipper)[5]
Doryteuthis opalescens (california market squid)[7]
Engraulis mordax (Californian anchoveta)[5]
Hexagrammos decagrammus (Kelp greenling)[5]
Hypomesus pretiosus (Surf smelt)[5]
Oncorhynchus keta (Calico salmon)[5]
Oncorhynchus kisutch (coho salmon or silver salmon)[5]
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (chinook salmon or king salmon)[5]
Spirinchus starksi (Night smelt)[6]
Trichodon trichodon (Sandfish)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Aechmophorus occidentalis (Western Grebe)1
Alopias vulpinus (Zorro thresher shark)2
Anoplopoma fimbria (Skil)1
Arctocephalus townsendi (Guadalupe Fur Seal)1
Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale)2
Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale)1
Brachyramphus marmoratus (Marbled Murrelet)3
Callorhinus ursinus (Northern Fur Seal)7
Caulolatilus princeps (Bighead tilefish)1
Cepphus columba (Pigeon Guillemot)2
Citharichthys sordidus (Sanddab)1
Clangula hyemalis (Oldsquaw)1
Cystophora cristata (Hooded Seal)1
Dasycottus setiger (Spinyhead sculpin)1
Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Saddleback Dolphin)3
Enhydra lutris (Sea Otter)1
Eopsetta jordani (Petrale sole)1
Erignathus barbatus (Bearded Seal)1
Eschrichtius robustus (Gray Whale)1
Eumetopias jubatus (Steller Sea Lion)3
Fratercula cirrhata (Tufted Puffin)4
Fratercula corniculata (Horned Puffin)1
Gadus macrocephalus (Pacific cod)2
Gavia arctica (Black-throated Loon)1
Genyonemus lineatus (White croaker)1
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)1
Haliaeetus pelagicus (Steller's Sea-Eagle)1
Hexagrammos stelleri (Greenling)1
Hippoglossoides elassodon (Paper sole)1
Hippoglossus stenolepis (Pacific halibut)3
Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern)2
Katsuwonus pelamis (White bonito)1
Kogia breviceps (Pygmy Sperm Whale)2
Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (Pacific White-sided Dolphin)3
Lamna ditropis (Salmon shark)4
Larus californicus (California Gull)1
Larus canus (Mew Gull)1
Larus glaucescens (Glaucous-winged Gull)1
Larus heermanni (Heermann's Gull)1
Larus occidentalis (Western Gull)2
Leptocottus armatus (Cabezon)2
Lissodelphis borealis (Northern Right Whale Dolphin)2
Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale)2
Merluccius productus (Whiting)3
Mirounga angustirostris (Northern Elephant Seal)2
Morus bassanus (Northern Gannet)1
Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii (Cutthroat trout)3
Ophiodon elongatus (Lingcod)2
Orcinus orca (Killer Whale)2
Pagophilus groenlandicus (Harp Seal)1
Phalacrocorax auritus (Double-crested Cormorant)2
Phalacrocorax pelagicus (Pelagic Cormorant)2
Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt's Cormorant)1
Phoca vitulina (Harbor Seal)2
Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise)2
Phocoenoides dalli (Dall's Porpoise)4
Podiceps auritus (Horned Grebe)2
Podiceps grisegena (Red-necked Grebe)2
Prionace glauca (Tribon blou)2
Puffinus creatopus (Pink-footed Shearwater)1
Puffinus griseus (Sooty Shearwater)2
Puffinus opisthomelas (Black-vented Shearwater)1
Puffinus tenuirostris (Short-tailed Shearwater)1
Raja binoculata (Big skate)1
Raja rhina (Longnose skate)1
Rissa tridactyla (Black-legged Kittiwake)2
Sebastes caurinus (Copper rockfish)2
Sebastes crameri (Rockfish)1
Sebastes flavidus (Yellowtail rockfish)3
Sebastes goodei (Rockfish)1
Sebastes melanops (Black bass)1
Seriphus politus (Drum)1
Squalus acanthias (Common spiny)3
Sterna paradisaea (Arctic Tern)1
Synthliboramphus antiquus (Ancient Murrelet)1
Theragra chalcogramma (Whiting)2
Thunnus thynnus (horse mackerel)1
Tursiops truncatus (Bottlenosed Dolphin)2
Uria aalge (Common Murre)4
Ursus americanus (black bear)1
Ursus arctos (Grizzly Bear)1
Zalophus californianus (California Sealion)2

Institutions (Zoos, etc.)

    Maps
Institution Infraspecies / Breed 
Alaska SeaLife Center
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
Oregon Coast Aquarium

Range Map

Link to Map
North America;

External References

Photos

Citations

Species recognized by Banks R.C., 22-Sep-2011, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Gaston, AJ and Dechesne, SBC 1996. Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata). No. 212. In The birds of North America. A. Poole and F. Gill [Eds.]. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC ♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org ♦ 4Anatomy and Histochemistry of Flight Muscles in a Wing-Propelled Diving Bird, the Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica, Christopher E. Kovacs and Ron A. Meyers, JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 244:109–125 (2000) ♦ 5Diving depths, diet, and underwater foraging of Rhinoceros Auklets in British Columbia, Alan E. Burger, Rory P. Wilson, Don Garnier and Marie-Pierre T. Wilson, Canadian Journal of Zoology Vol. 71: 2528-2540 (1993) ♦ 6Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979 ♦ 7CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder
Protected Areas provided by Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators.
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation International
Important Bird Areas provided by BirdLife International (2010) Important Bird Areas. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 29/12/2010
Images provided by Google Image Search
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Range map provided by Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Allnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2007. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 3.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada - WILDSPACE.
Weather provided by NOAA METAR Data Access
Institution information provided by International Species Information System - May 2011