Birds of the World

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Genus: Macronectes (2 species)


Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) Range: SO, AN: is. and coasts of s Chile and Argentina and Antarctica to Heard (sc Indian Ocean) and Macquarie is. (far se of Australia) South Africa White morph with juvenile.
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) Range: SO, AN: is. and coasts of s Chile and Argentina and Antarctica to Heard (sc Indian Ocean) and Macquarie is. (far se of Australia) East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia Dark morph.
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) Immature Range: SO, AN: is. and coasts of s Chile and Argentina and Antarctica to Heard (sc Indian Ocean) and Macquarie is. (far se of Australia) East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Compare to Northern Giant Petrel.


Northern Giant Petrel (Macronectes halli) Range: SO: islands n of Antarctic Convergence from South Georgia to Macquarie (far se of Australia) and Stewart, Chatham (e of South I.), Antipodes (se of Stewart I.), and Auckland and Campbell is. (s of South I.; New Zealand) Western Cape, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

Very similar to Southern Giant Petrel. Note red and not greenish tip to bill, and white just on face and throat (Birds of Peru). No white morph.

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Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba