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ACAP. 2010. ACAP Species Assessment: Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli. Available at: https://www.acap.aq/en/acap-species/264-northern-giant-petrel/file.

Becker, P. H.; Gonzalez-Solis, J.; Behrends, B.; Croxall, J. P. 2002. Feather mercury levels in seabirds at South Georgia: Influence of trophic position, sex and age. Marine Ecology Progress Series 243: 261-269.

BirdLife International. 2004. Tracking ocean wanderers: the global distribution of albatrosses and petrels. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Bretagnolle, V.; Weimerskirch, H.; Jouventin, P. 1991. Have giant petrels Macronectes spp. really increased at îles Crozet? Marine Ornithology 19: 73-74.

Brooke, M. de L. 2004. Albatrosses and Petrels Across the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Brown, R. M., Techow, N. M., Wood, A. G., Phillips, R. A. 2015. Hybridization and back-crossing in giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus and M. halli) at Bird Island South Georgia, and a summary of hyrbridization in seabirds. PloS one 10(3): e0121688.

CCAMLR. 1997. Report of the XVI meeting of the Scientific Committee.

CCAMLR. 1998. Report of the XVII meeting of the Scientific Committee.

De Bruyn, N. P. J.; Cooper, J.; Bester, M. N.; Tosh, C. A. 2007. The importance of land-based prey for sympatrically breeding Giant Petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Antarctic Science 19: 25-30.

Gonzalez-Solis, J. 2004. Sexual size dimorphism in Northern Giant Petrels: ecological correlates and scaling. Oikos 105: 247-254.

Gonzalez-Solis, J.; Croxall, J. P. 2005. Differences in foraging behaviour and feeding ecology in giant petrels. In: Ruckstuhl, K.E.; Neuhaus, P. (ed.), Sexual segregation in vertebrates: ecology of the two sexes, pp. 92-111. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

González-Solís, J.; Croxall, J. P.; Wood, A. G. 2000. Foraging partitioning between giant petrels Macronectes spp. and its relationship with breeding population changes at Bird Island, South Georgia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 204: 279-288.

Hunter S. 1987. Species and sexual isolation mechanisms in sibling species of Giant Petrels Macronectes. Polar Biology 7: 295-301.

Hunter, S. 1983. The food and feeding ecology of the giant petrels Macronectes halli and M. giganteus at South Georgia. Journal of Zoology (London) 200: 521-538.

Hunter, S. 1984. Movements of South Georgia giant petrels Macronectes spp. ringed at South Georgia. Ringing & Migration 5(2): 105-112.

Hunter, S. 1985. The role of giant petrels in the Southern Ocean ecosystem. In: Siegfried, W.R.; Condy, P.R.; Laws, P.R. (ed.), Antarctic nutrient cycles and food webs, pp. 534-542. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Hunter, S.; Brooke, M. de. L. 1992. The diet of giant petrels Macronectes spp. at Marion Island, southern Indian Ocean. Colonial Waterbirds 15: 56-65.

Jouventin, P.; Martinez, J.; Roux, J. -P. 1989. Breeding biology and current status of the Amsterdam Island Albatross. Ibis 131: 171-189.

Patterson, D. L.; Fraser, W. R. 2003. Satellite tracking Southern Giant Petrels at Palmer Station, Antarctica. Microwave Telemetry, Inc. Newsletter 8: 3-4.

Patterson, D. L.; Woehler, E.J.; Croxall, J. P.; Cooper, J.; Poncet, S.; Fraser, W. R. 2008. Breeding distribution and population status of the Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli and Southern Giant Petrel M. giganteus. Marine Ornithology 36: 115-124.

Quintana F., Dell'Arciprete, O. P. 2002. Foraging grounds of southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) on the Patagonian shelf . Polar Biology 25(2): 159-161.

Taylor, G. A. 2000. Action plan for seabird conservation in New Zealand. Department of Conservation, Wellington.

Thiers, L., Delord, K., Barbraud, C., Phillips, R. A., Pinaud, D., Weimerskirch, H. 2014. Foraging zones of the two sibling species of giant petrels in the Indian Ocean throughout the annual cycle: implication for their conservation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 499: 233-248.

Weimerskirch, H.; Zotier, R.; Jouventin, P. 1989. The avifauna of the Kerguelen Islands. Emu 89: 15-29.

Wiltshire, A. J.; Scofield, R. P. 2000. Population estimate of breeding Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli on Campbell Island, New Zealand. Emu 100: 186-191.

Wiltshire, A.; Hamilton, S. 2003. Population estimate for northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli) on Antipodes Island, New Zealand. Notornis 50: 128-132.

Woehler, E. J.; Croxall, J. P. 1999. The status and trends of Antarctic and subantarctic seabirds. Marine Ornithology 25: 43-66.

Additional information is available on the distribution of the Northern Giant-petrel from the Global Procellariiform Tracking Database (http://www.seabirdtracking.org)

Australian Govt - Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000 - Recovery Outline

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/northern-giant-petrel-macronectes-halli on 26/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 26/11/2024.