Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Afrikaans | Gewone Stormswael |
Arabic | نوء ويلسوني |
Asturian | Pañn de Wilson |
Basque | Wilson ekaitz-txoria |
Bulgarian | Уилсънова вълнолюбка |
Catalan | Ocell de tempesta de Wilson |
Chinese | 黃蹼洋海燕 |
Chinese (SIM) | 黄蹼洋海燕(烟黑叉尾海燕) |
Croatian | šarenonoga burnica |
Czech | buřníček žlutonohý |
Danish | Wilsons Stormsvale |
Dutch | Wilsons Stormvogeltje |
English | Wilson's Storm-Petrel |
English (United States) | Wilson's Storm-Petrel |
Faroese | Fitjugulur drunnhvíti |
Finnish | etelänkeiju |
French | Océanite de Wilson |
French (France) | Océanite de Wilson |
Galician | Paíño de pés amarelos |
German | Buntfuß-Sturmschwalbe |
Greek | Κυματοβάτης του Νότου |
Haitian Creole (Haiti) | Oseanit |
Hebrew | יסעורון וילסון |
Hungarian | Wilson-viharfecske |
Icelandic | Hafsvala |
Indonesian | Petrel-badai cokelat |
Italian | Uccello delle tempeste di Wilson |
Japanese | アシナガウミツバメ |
Lithuanian | Margakojis Vilsono audrašauklis |
Malayalam | വിൽസൺ കാറ്റിളക്കി |
Norwegian | oseanstormsvale |
Persian | مرغ طوفان ویلسون |
Polish | oceannik żółtopłetwy |
Portuguese (Angola) | Painho-casquilho |
Portuguese (Brazil) | alma-de-mestre |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Casquilho |
Romanian | Furtunar atlantic |
Russian | Вильсонова океанида |
Serbian | Vilsonova burnica |
Slovak | búrkozvest pestronohý |
Slovenian | Antarktični strakoš |
Spanish | Paíño de Wilson |
Spanish (Argentina) | Paíño Común |
Spanish (Chile) | Golondrina de mar de Wilson/fueguina |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | Paiño de Wilson |
Spanish (Cuba) | Pamperito de Wilson |
Spanish (Dominican Republic) | Golondrina del Mar |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Paíño de Wilson |
Spanish (Mexico) | Paíño de Wilson |
Spanish (Panama) | Paíño de Wilson |
Spanish (Peru) | Golondrina de Mar de Wilson |
Spanish (Puerto Rico) | Paíño de Wilson |
Spanish (Spain) | Paíño de Wilson |
Spanish (Uruguay) | Paíño Pardo |
Spanish (Venezuela) | Petrel de las Tormentas |
Swedish | havslöpare |
Turkish | Sarı Ayaklı Fırtınakırlangıcı |
Ukrainian | Океанник Вільсона |
Wilson's Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus
Version: 1.0 — Published March 8, 2013
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Diet and Foraging
Diet
The following summary is based on Brooke (2004).
Feeding almost entirely aerial, by dipping (73% of observations) or pattering (27%: Harper 1987). May occasionally dive to shallow depths to retrieve food (Murphy 1936). Ridoux (1994) summarizes several studies that show diet during the breeding season to be dominated by crustacea, either euphausiids and amphipods at subantarctic sites ormainly euphausiids near Antarctica. In the Ross Sea, however, Ainley et al. (1984) found cephalopods (46% by weight) to be almost as important as euphausiids (36%). Fish also are consumed, and at South Georgia, are all myctophids 50-85 mm long (Croxall et al. 1988). Diet outside the breeding season is poorly known, but probably includes crustacea, small fish and their eggs, mollusks, nereid worms, oil droplets, and cetacean feces (Cramp and Simmons 1977, Marchand and Higgins 1990). Studies have shown conflicting results as to whether olfaction is key for finding food (Jouventin and Robin 1984, Nevitt 1999).