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Hydrobates pelagicus
– Least Concern
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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PROCELLARIIFORMES
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Family:
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HYDROBATIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Hydrobates pelagicus
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Species Authority:
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(Linnaeus, 1758)
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Common Name/s:
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| English | — | EUROPEAN STORM-PETREL |
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LC ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2004
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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Hydrobates pelagicus has a large global population estimated to be 840,000 individuals (Fishpool and Evans 2001). About 90% of the known breeding population is concentrated in the Faroe Islands (Denmark) (150,000–400,000 pairs), United Kingdom (20,000–150,000 pairs), Ireland (50,000–100,000 pairs) and Iceland (50,000–100,000 pairs), with smaller colonies in France (400–600 pairs), Greece (10–30 pairs), Italy (1,500–2,000 pairs), Malta (5,000 pairs), Norway (1,000–10,000 pairs), Spain (1,700–2,000 pairs) and a further 1,000 pairs on the Canary Islands (Spain). It winters off western and southern Africa. Although trend information is poor, there have been small population declines in Malta, Spain and France, with more significant declines on Guernsey and the Canary Islands. It nests on remote islands that are largely free of mammalian predators. The accidental introduction of such predators is the main threat to this species, particularly in southern Europe and the Mediterranean. In some areas, increases in numbers of skuas and large gulls appear to have increased the rate of predation. There may be some risk from eating contaminated food items or taking indisgestible matter but, by feeding in flight, the species is less vulnerable to oil spills than some other seabirds (Newbury et al. 1998, Tucker and Heath 1994). This species has a large range, with an estimated global breeding extent of occurrence of 50,000–100,000 km². Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of a population decline (Newbury et al. 1998, Tucker and Heath 1994), 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.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 1994 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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Hydrobates pelagicus has a large global population estimated to be 840,000 individuals (Fishpool and Evans 2001). About 90% of the known breeding population is concentrated in the Faroe Islands (Denmark) (150,000-400,000 pairs), United Kingdom (20,000-150,000 pairs), Ireland (50,000-100,000 pairs) and Iceland (50,000-100,000 pairs), with smaller colonies in France (400-600 pairs), Greece (10-30 pairs), Italy (1,500-2,000 pairs), Malta (5,000 pairs), Norway (1,000-10,000 pairs), Spain (1,700-2,000 pairs) and a further 1,000 pairs on the Canary Islands (Spain). This species has a large range, with an estimated global breeding Extent of Occurrence of 50,000-100,000 km. It nests on remote islands that are largely free of mammalian predators. The accidental introduction of such predators is the main threat to this species, particularly in southern Europe and the Mediterranean. In some areas, increases in numbers of skuas and large gulls appear to have increased the rate of predation. There may be some risk from eating contaminated food items or taking indisgestible matter but, by feeding in flight, the species is less vulnerable to oil spills than some other seabirds (Newbury et al. 1998, Tucker and Heath 1994). The species winters off western and southern Africa. Although global population trends have not been quantified, there have been small population declines in Malta, Spain and France, with more significant declines on Guernsey and the Canary Islands, but trend information is poor. Despite the evidence of a population decline (Newbury et al. 1998, Tucker and Heath 1994), 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.
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Countries:
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Native:
Denmark; Faroe Islands; France; Germany; Gibraltar; Greece; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malta; Norway; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom
Vagrant:
Algeria; Austria; Belgium; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Côte d'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Israel; Lebanon; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Poland; Russian Federation; Sierra Leone; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; Switzerland; Tunisia; Turkey; Ukraine
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial; Marine
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