Species Detail: Bulweria bulwerii
Taxonomy / Classification
Scientific Name: Bulweria bulwerii
 
Authority: (Jardine and Selby, 1828)
 
Synonyms:
 
Common Names:
Common Names Location Language
Bulwer's Petrel Global English
Bulwers Stormvogel Dutch Caribbean Dutch
 
 
Formal Taxonomy:
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus
Animalia Craniata Aves
(Birds)		 Procellariiformes
 Procellariidae Bulweria
 
Taxonomic Comments:
 
General Species Description: Reproduction Comments: Single egg is laid in May-June (rarely late April) in Hawaii. Mean incubation period of five eggs was 45 days; mean nestling period of four young was 62 days (Whittow 1994). Young fledge mid-August to October (Berger 1981). Ecology Comments: Rats may prey on adults, crabs may prey on young (Berger 1981).

Conservation Status
Status type Location Status Review date
IUCN Redlist Global LC
Natureserve Global G4

Habitats Terrestrially widely distributed: No

Habitat subtype Description Comments
MARINE - coastal (general)

Distribution Status
Distributions Occurrence Status Description
Global

Location Occurrence Status Description
Dutch Caribbean Netherlands Antilles Seas - Casual visitor from the Atlantic

Population No Population listed.

Threats No Threats listed.

Uses No Uses listed.

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References
Citation Author Reference Type
Birds of the Netherlands Antilles / Karel Hendrik Voous ; coloured plates by Henk J. Slijper. - Voous, Karel Hendrik. - 327 p. : ill., pl. ; 20 cm. - [2nd, rev. ed., English version]. - With bibliogr., index. - 1st ed.: 1955, Dutch version (De vogels van de Nederlandse Antillen). - 90-6011-157-5. - Zutphen : Walburg Pers, 1983 Voous, Karel Hendrik Published document

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