The food and feeding ecology of the giant petrels Macronectes halli and M. giganteus at South Georgia

• Published in: Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Hunter, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1983
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Bird Island; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Giant Petrels; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1983.tb02813.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-7998.1983.tb02813.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1983.tb02813.x; https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1983.tb02813.x

Giant petrels are the chief scavenging seabirds in the Southern Ocean. Quantitatively analysed regurgitations from chicks of both Macronectes halli and M. giganteus at Bird Island, South Georgia throughout the chick rearing period consisted predominantly of adult Macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolop...