Southern Giant Petrel Gallery

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Southern giant-petrel
Macronectes giganteus
eating a King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) chick, with a Snowy sheathbill (Chionis alba) in the foreground
Crozet Islands, Southern Indian Ocean

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Southern giant petrel and chick, Antarctic Pen

Southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) fluffy chick and powerful parent bird, sitting together among coastal rocks, while aggresive Brown skua (Catharacta antarctica) flies nearby hunting for eggs and chicks of other birds, summer, Armstrong Reef; Antarctica; Antarctic Peninsula; Southern Ocean

© John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk

Southern Giant Petrel - 1st stage juvenile in flight over sea

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Southern Giant Petrel - 1st stage juvenile in flight over sea
Falklands Islands
Macronectes giganteus
Bill Coster
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