Peruvian booby

Peruvian booby
Temporal range: Miocene-recent 11.62–0 Ma [1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Suliformes
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Sula
Species:
S. variegata
Binomial name
Sula variegata
(Tschudi, 1843)

The Peruvian booby (Sula variegata) is an endemic bird of the Peruvian current, and an important predator of the marine community to which it belongs.[3] Its distribution is much less widespread than other closely related booby species. It is the most abundant seabird species that inhabits the Peruvian coast[4] and the second most important guano-producing seabird. During the mid-twentieth century, the Peruvian booby population reached 3 million birds.[5]

  1. ^ "Sula variegata Tschudi 1843 (Peruvian booby)". PBDB.
  2. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Sula variegata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22696686A132589026. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22696686A132589026.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  3. ^ Carlos B. Zavalaga; Joanne Halls; Giacomo Dell'Omo (28 January 2010). "Marine habitat use of Peruvian boobies: a geographic and oceanographic comparison between inshore and offshore islands". ICES Journal of Marine Science. 67 (5): 940–951. doi:10.1093/ICESJMS/FSP298. ISSN 1054-3139. Wikidata Q109969557.
  4. ^ Alejandro Simeone; Guillermo Luna-Jorquera; Mariano Bernal; et al. (June 2003). "Breeding distribution and abundance of seabirds on islands off north-central Chile". Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 76 (2): 323–333. ISSN 0716-078X. Wikidata Q109969589.
  5. ^ H. Tovar; V. Guillén; D. Cabrera (1987). "Reproduction and population levels of Peruvian Guano Birds, 1980 to 1986". Journal of Geophysical Research. 92 (C13): 14445. Bibcode:1987JGR....9214445T. doi:10.1029/JC092IC13P14445. ISSN 0148-0227. Wikidata Q56531383.