Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Alcidae |
Scientific Name: | Cepphus columba Pallas, 1811 | |||
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Taxonomic Source(s): | del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK. |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Date Assessed: | 2016-10-01 |
Assessor(s): | BirdLife International |
Reviewer(s): | Butchart, S. & Symes, A. |
Facilitator/Compiler(s): | Ekstrom, J., Butchart, S., Calvert, R. |
Justification: This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is very large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. |
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Range Description: | The Pigeon Guillemot can be found in the North Pacific, breeding from the Kuril Islands (Russia), on the Kamchatkan Peninsula to the eastern tip of Siberia, Russia, and from the western tip of Alaska (USA) down through the Atlantic coast of Canada to southern California (USA), including colonies on the Commander and Aleutian Islands (del Hoyo et al. 1996). | ||||||||||||||||
Countries occurrence: | Native: Canada; Japan; Mexico; Russian Federation (Eastern Asian Russia); United States | ||||||||||||||||
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Population: | The global population was estimated to number 235,000 individuals in 1993 (del Hoyo et al. 1996). Trend Justification: The overall trend is likely to be stable. This species has undergone a small or statistically insignificant increase over the last 40 years in North America (data from Breeding Bird Survey and/or Christmas Bird Count: Butcher and Niven 2007). Note, however, that these surveys cover less than 50% of the species's range in North America. | ||||||||||||
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Habitat and Ecology: | This marine species can be found along rocky coastlines of the North Pacific. Its diet includes a wide variety of small benthic fish and invertebrates, widening to include more species in the summer. Chicks are usually fed fish which tend to be obtained within 1 km of the colony. It normally arrives at colonies between March and April, breeding on sea cliffs and slopes close to regions of shallow water usually less than 50 m deep. It is a monogamous species with high mate and site fidelity, usually breeding in small colonies of under 50 birds, sometimes as single pairs, but colonies of over 1000 birds have been seen. Individuals normally remain near colonies outside the breeding season, though birds from Alaska and California move south and north respectively (del Hoyo et al. 1996). |
Systems: | Terrestrial; Marine |
Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat: | Unknown |
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Generation Length (years): | 8 |
Movement patterns: | Full Migrant |
Congregatory: | Congregatory (and dispersive) |
Amended reason: | Edit to population estimate. Edit to country occurrence seasonality. |
Citation: | BirdLife International. 2017. Cepphus columba (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22694864A113555527. . Downloaded on 27 April 2018. |
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