AN ANTARCTIC FULMARFULMARUS GLACULOIDE.S FEEDING ON LAND

• Main Authors: F. Genevois, O. Chastel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Antarctic; Fulmar; Harper; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Petrel; Antarctica; Daption capense; Giant Petrels; pintado petrel; Snow Petrel; Thalassoica antarctica; Pintado
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.601.4440; http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/19/MO_1991_25.pdf

Of the 95 species of the seabird family Procellariidae (Jouanin & Mougin 1979) only the two giant petrels Mauonectes spp. and the Snow Petrel Pagodroma niveu have been reportcd to feed on land. In this note, we add this previously unexpected technique to the repertoire of another, the Antarctic...