Title
Immature Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli visiting the coast of Peru
Date Issued
01 December 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Nagoya University
University of Exeter
Abstract
Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli breed on sub-Antarctic islands located north of the Antarctic Polar Front, with juveniles dispersing widely throughout the southern Pacific and Indian Oceans. We report the sightings at sea of 11 immature Northern Giant Petrels off the central and southern Peruvian coast, including the northernmost sighting of this species off the port of Callao (12°6.8′S, 77°36.5′W). All the sightings occurred between August and December. We also recovered the band of a 2.5-year-old Northern Giant Petrel that was captured incidentally in a longline in northern Chilean waters. This bird was banded as a chick on Macquarie Island and had traveled at least 10 700 km from its breeding site. Regular sightings suggest that Northern Giant Petrels have been regular non-breeding visitors to the coast of southern and central Peru during the last decade. © Marine Ornithology 2009.
Start page
237
End page
240
Volume
37
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84859873973
Source
Marine Ornithology
ISSN of the container
10183337
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus