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	New Zealand Birds \| Birds \| Gallery \| Northern giant petrel, Macronectes halli
		The habitat of the giant petrel is the cold water region of the southern hemisphere from the Antarctic continent northwards to about 30 degrees south.
		According to Oliver, the giant petrel may often be seen off shore sailing close to the water, every now and then flapping its wings several times in succession.
		Oliver records observations of giant petrels on Campbell Island; scavenging is the giant petrel’s real occupation and nothing washed ashore or floating dead on the sea is overlooked, be it the carcass of a huge whale or the body of a tiny penguin.
	nzbirds.com /birds/giantpetrel.html (490 words)

	Petrels - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Antarctic petrel is a boldly marked dark brown and white petrel, a little smaller than the Antarctic fulmar.
		The White-headed Petrel is a burrowing petrel with dark wings, a white head with a dark eye and a pale body and tail.
		The Atlantic petrel is one of the largest gadfly petrels, recognized by its striking white breast and belly in contrast to the rest of its plumage which is uniformly brown.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/birds/petrels.shtml (916 words)

	AllRefer.com - petrel (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		The giant petrel, or giant fulmar (the size of an albatross), and the auklike diving petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix, are both found in the Southern Hemisphere; the fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), or fulmar petrel, inhabits the North Atlantic.
		The giant petrel is actually a member of the family Procellariidae (shearwater family).
		Petrels are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Procellariiformes, families Hydrobatidae and Pelecanoididae.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/petrel.html (281 words)

	RELATIVE PASSAGE RATES OF LIPID AND AQUEOUS DIGESTA IN THE FORMATION OF STOMACH OILS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Petrels ex- hibit a low overall passage rate; gastric emp- tying comprised 57.8% of the 10.6 h mean transit time for aqueous components and 62.5% of the 20 h mean transit time for lipids.
		The petrel proventriculus is relatively large, and entire meals reside in the proventriculus for extended periods, as reflected in the low rates of gastric emptying.
		Breeding biology and population dy- namics of giant petrels Macronectes at South Geor- gia.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v106n02/p0303-p0313.html (10236 words)

	Southern giant petrel - Macronectes giganteus: More Information - ARKive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giant petrels are very susceptible to disturbance during the breeding season, and tend to abandon the nest if they are threatened (3).
		Petrels are able to regurgitate foul-smelling oil which they spit at intruders; this habit earned the southern giant petrel the alternative name of ‘stinker' (5).
		Between 1997 and 1998, an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 southern giant petrels were killed in illegal and unregulated longline fisheries for Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean (2).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Macronectes_giganteus/more_info.html (769 words)

	Souvenir sheet for Birdlife International issue featuring the Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giant petrels can be very vicious, often seen in bloody attacks on penguins or young chicks, or tearing flesh from seal or whale carrion.
		Another name given to giant petrels is "stinker", which comes from their ability to spit (with accuracy) a blob of oil and food at their attacker.
		Although not endangered, giant petrels are often caught in long line fishing hooks, and are easily disturbed from their nests.
	www.mikeskidmore.supanet.com /st-petrels-souvenir-sheet.htm (466 words)

	Northern giant petrel, Macronectes halli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The habitat of the giant petrel is the cold water region of the southern hemisphere from the Antarctic continent northwards to about 30 degrees south.
		According to Oliver, the giant petrel may often be seen off shore sailing close to the water, every now and then flapping its wings several times in succession.
		Oliver records observations of giant petrels on Campbell Island; scavenging is the giant petrel’s real occupation and nothing washed ashore or floating dead on the sea is overlooked, be it the carcass of a huge whale or the body of a tiny penguin.
	www.nzbirds.com /birds/giantpetrel.html (490 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World -Fulmars, Petrels and allies
		Systematics and evolution of the Fulmars and Petrels
		The state of petrel taxonomy is nicely summarized by del Hoyo et al.
		While the Fulmars and Giant Petrels show significant size and plumage differences there are strong affinties in terms of diet and ecology.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /Fulmar.PetrelList.html (1044 words)

	Southern Giant Petrel, Macronectes Giganteus - South Seas Companion Natural Phenomenon
		Sometimes called the 'Vulture of the Antartic', the Giant Petrel is a large scavenging bird found in the southern oceans.
		The Southern Giant Petrel grows as large as 100 centimetres in body length.
		Southern Giant Petrels are mostly scavengers living on dead birds and animals, although they also hunt fish, smaller birds and various species of marine life.
	southseas.nla.gov.au /biogs/P000396b.htm (138 words)

	Auk, The: Kleptoparasitism by Brown Skuas on albatrosses and giant-petrels in the Indian Ocean
		The skua did not strike the petrel but came within 0.5 m as it swooped over and past it.
		Upon reaching the petrel, the skua grabbed its scapulars or inner secondaries as the petrel tried to increase its altitude.
		Upon being grabbed, the petrel dropped to the water from 3 m asl.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_199904/ai_n8842457 (1277 words)

	WBUR.ORG - Antarctica Special
		The purpose of this activity is to learn about the giant petrel and the problems this bird faces.
		Share the photographs of giant petrels with students and read Dan Grossman's January 14th journal entry to the students.
		Ask students to write a story about a petrel from a petrel's point of view.
	www.wbur.org /special/antarctica/teacherguides/3_5/petrel.asp (250 words)

	Antarctic birds (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The storm petrel (aka Wilson petrel, Oceanites oceanicus) is the smallest Antarctic bird, about 10cm in length.
		It is also the bird that has the longest migration circuit in the world: in July/august it goes to the Arctic to feed, and in December/January it comes to Antarctica to breed, always living in summer.
		This specie has been studied for 30 years, on 3 colonies (250 nests); thousands of birds have been tagged and it is probably the biggest demographic study in the world.
	www.gdargaud.net /Antarctica/Birds.html (1410 words)

	Antarctic Petrel (Thalassoica antarctica) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Antarctic Petrel is similar to the Cape (Pintado) Petrel but without the pied (speckled) upperwing.
		Antarctic petrels spend the Antarctic winter at sea near the pack ice edge, returning the continent to breed in the summer.
		Antarctic petrels are not endangered with several million pairs in existence.
	www.70south.com /resources/animals/birds/antarcticpetrel (198 words)

	petrel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saving Gould's petrel: for most threatened plants and animals, there is no way back from a place on the list of endangered species.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p1/petrel.asp (496 words)

	Southern giant petrel - Macronectes giganteus: More Still Images - ARKive
		Southern giant petrel (dark morph) inspecting egg in nest
		Southern giant petrel (white morph) with chick in nest
		Southern giant petrel adult and chick on nest
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Macronectes_giganteus/more_still_images.html (86 words)

	Northern Giant Petrel (Macronectes halli) - BirdForum
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		Three views of the Northern Giant Petrel, taken on 10 Nov 2003 near Crozet Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
		If only I'd known how to tell the giant petrels apart when I was in NZ, I'd possibly have ticked them both rather than giant petrel sp.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=15233 (211 words)

	January 26, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bill Fraser, Donna Patterson and Erik Chapman were anxious to get out to Humble Island to weigh giant petrel chicks and to check on the status of one individual with a satellite transmitter.
		We record for half and hour, listening to the low, raspy cawing displays of a pair of giant petrels.
		Click here to listen to an MP3 sample of a female giant petrel at her nest.
	www.antarctica2000.net /palmer/journal11/1_26_00.html (496 words)

	Hall's Giant Petrel - Macronectes halli
		Identification: Giant Petrels are the size of small albatrosses but distinguished by shorter wings, bulkier bodies and heavier, less graceful flight.
		However, the two species are very difficult to separate at sea and birds with intermediate characters are known to occur in some areas.
		Closely resembles Southern Giant Petrel M. giganteus which differs in less capped effect of head, whiter breast, white leading edge to wing and horn-coloured bill with greenish tip.
	www.birdforum.net /bird_view.php?bid=3972 (396 words)

	Southern giant petrel - Macronectes giganteus - ARKive
		Southern giant petrel - Macronectes giganteus - ARKive
		The southern giant petrel is, as the name suggests, a very large bird, with impressive long, pointed wings and a huge bill.
		This petrel is of a similar size to albatrosses, but it can be distinguished by its large bill, narrower shorter wings and a general humpbacked form.
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Macronectes_giganteus?size=medium (207 words)

	Antarctica XXI: The first air cruise to Antartica
		Amosng the main species that make up Antarctic fauna are whales, Elephant Seals, Weddell Seals, Adelie, Gentoo and Chinstrap Penguins, apart from the variety of birds, such as albatrosses, petrels and Snowy Sheathbills.
		Giant Petrels are the largest of the petrel family, which goes to make up the order of tubenosed or procellariiform seabirds, along with albatrosses, shearwaters, storm petrels and diving petrels.
		The crucial feature used to distinguish the northern giant petrel from the closely related southern giant petrel is the color of the bill tip: reddish-brown in the northern, and greenish in the southern.
	www.antarcticaxxi.com /eng/wildlife.php (1637 words)

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