Southern giant petrel - Wikipedia
The southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar northern giant petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further south.
Southern Giant-Petrel - eBird
Giant-Petrels are known as vultures of the Southern Ocean and can scavenge with gulls at sewage outflows or with albatrosses at fishing boats; often follows ships. Very large (size of smaller albatross) with a very big pale bill that always has a diagnostic pale greenish tip.
Southern Giant Petrel - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on
The southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar northern giant petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further south. Adults of the two species can be ...
Southern Giant Petrel | Audubon
2015年11月13日 · When scavenging options are slim they’ll use the hook on their beak to capture and eviscerate squid, fish, young penguins—and even their golden-child counterparts, albatrosses—and there are accounts of Southern Giant Petrels bashing seabirds against the surf or holding them underwater to drown them.
Southern Giant Petrel | Oceana
Temperate to sub-polar latitudes of the southern hemisphere. Nest on land; feed in coastal to open ocean (pelagic) waters. Foraging predator. As in all seabirds, southern giant petrels nest on land and feed at sea.
Giant petrel - Wikipedia
The southern giant petrel is slightly larger than the northern giant petrel, at 3 to 8 kg (6.6–17.6 lb), 180 to 210 cm (71–83 in) across the wings, and 86 to 100 cm (34–39 in) of body length.
Southern Giant-Petrel - Macronectes giganteus - Birds of the …
2024年11月12日 · Southern Giant-Petrel (Macronectes giganteus), version 1.1. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, E. de Juana, and F. Medrano, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.angpet1.01.1.
Southern giant petrel – Australian Antarctic Program
Southern giant petrels breed on the Antarctic continent, Antarctic Peninsula and on subantarctic islands including Heard Island, South Georgia, Marion, and Iles Crozet. Southern giant petrels nest in ice-free coastal areas, rocky bluffs, open flats, edges of plateaux or offshore rocks.
Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) · iNaturalist
The southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar northern giant petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further south.
Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) - BirdLife species …
Family: Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters) Authority: (Gmelin, 1789) Red List Category