Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Procellariiformes > Diomedeidae > Phoebetria > Phoebetria fusca | Phoebetria fusca (Sooty Albatross) | |
Synonyms: Diomedea fusca The sooty albatross, dark-mantled sooty albatross or dark-mantled albatross, (Phoebetria fusca), is a species of bird in the albatross family. They breed on sub-Antarctic islands and range at sea across the Southern Ocean from South America to Australia. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 11.792 EDGE Score: 4.62826 |
Adult Weight [1] | 5.699 lbs (2.585 kg) | Birth Weight [2] | 231 grams | Female Weight [1] | 5.379 lbs (2.44 kg) | Male Weight [1] | 6.019 lbs (2.73 kg) | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 11.9 % |  | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | Diet - Fish [3] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 90 % | Forages - Water Surface [3] | 100 % |  | Clutch Size [2] | 1 | Incubation [4] | 70 days | Migration [5] | Intercontinental | Wing Span [6] | 6.56 feet (2 m) |
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Falaises d'Entrecasteaux |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A4ii, A4iii |
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Gough Island |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île aux Cochons |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île de l'Est |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île de la Possession |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île des Pingouins |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île Saint Paul |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Îles des Apôtres |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A4ii, A4iii |
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Inaccessible Island |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Nightingale Island group |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Prince Edward Islands Special Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Tristan da Cunha |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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  Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Threlfall, W. and SP Mahoney. 1980. The use of measurements in sexing Common Murres from Newfoundland. Wilson Bulletin 92: 266-268 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca), Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels - www.acap.aq ♦ 5Myers, 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♦ 6Wildlife As Canon Sees It♦ 7CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database ♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 9THE DIETS AND DIETARY SEGREGATION OF SEABIRDS AT THE SUBANTARCTIC CROZET ISLANDS, VINCENT RIDOUX, MARINE ORNITHOLOGY Vol. 22 No. 1 1994 ♦ 10Amphipod-based food web: Themisto gaudichaudii caught in nets and by seabirds in Kerguelen waters, southern Indian Ocean, Pierrick Bocher, Yves Cherel, Jean-Philippe Labat, Patrick Mayzaud, Suzanne Razouls, Pierre Jouventin, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 223: 261276, 2001 ♦ 11International Flea Database♦ 12Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 WWF WildFINDER |
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