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: unknown
• Published: Zoological Society of London 1983
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Bird Island; Giganteus; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Giant Petrels
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524145/; https://doi.org/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...