The white-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) on South Georgia: population size, distribution and global significance

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Martin, A.R., Poncet, S., Barbraud, Christophe, Foster, E., Fretwell, P., Rothery, P.
• Other Authors: British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), South Georgia Surveys, Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CEH Monks Wood
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2009
• Subjects: White-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis); Population size; Burrow-nesting; South Georgia; Antarctic; envir; geo; Burrows; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-008-0570-5; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00378139

International audience More white-chinned petrels (Procellaria aequinoctialis) are accidentally killed in fisheries than probably any other seabird in the world, but the population impact of this mortality is poorly understood, partly because there have been no recent estimates of the species'...