Status of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus 1758, at Bird Island, South Georgia

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Berrow, Simon D., Croxall, John P., Grant, Sharon D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2000
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; Bird Island; Burrows; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102000000468; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102000000468

The white-chinned petrel ( Procellaria aequinoctialis ) is an abundant, widespread petrel breeding in tussock grassland at sub-Antarctic islands. Over the last decade it has been killed in large numbers in temperate and sub-tropical longline fisheries. However no data are available on the global pop...