The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Daption capense

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: PROCELLARIIFORMES
Family: PROCELLARIIDAE
Scientific Name: Daption capense
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name/s:
EnglishCAPE PETREL

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LC    ver 3.1 (2001)
Year Assessed: 2004
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Evaluator/s: Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
Justification: This species has a large range, with an estimated global breeding extent of occurrence of 50,000–100,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 2,000,000 individuals (Fishpool and Evans 2001). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History:
1988-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
1994-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
2000-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description: This species has a large range, with an estimated global breeding Extent of Occurrence of 50,000-100,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 2,000,000 individuals (Fishpool and Evans 2001). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Countries: Native:

Angola; Antarctica; Argentina; Australia; Bouvet Island; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); French Southern Territories; Heard Island and McDonald Islands; Mauritius; Mozambique; Namibia; New Zealand; Norway; Peru; Réunion; Saint Helena; South Africa; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Uruguay


Vagrant:

Cook Islands; Fiji; France; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gibraltar; Indonesia; Italy; Kenya; Seychelles

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial; Marine

Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Daption capense. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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