Petrels Gallery

Under threat a Fulmar chick defends itself with projectile vomit {Fulmarus glacialis}

Under threat a Fulmar chick defends itself with projectile vomit {Fulmarus glacialis} Fulmar in Norse means foul gull'. (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film, Weird Nature tv series)

© www.naturepl.com

Birds, Fulmarus Glacialis, Petrels, Seabirds, Vertebrates

BIO25153

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

© BIOS /AUSCAPE All rights reserved

Antarctic Birdlife, Antarctic Giant Petrel, Antarctic Wildlife, Antarctica, Apex Predators, Aves, Birds, Circumpolar, Colonial, Declining Population, Large, Near Threatened, Pelagic, Petrels, Polar, Predator, Predatory, Procellariidae, Procellariiformes, Scavenger, Scavenging, Seabird, Stinker, Subantarctic, Tube Nosed, Vulnerable

Flight of Antarctic Petrels, c1908, (1909)

Flight of Antarctic Petrels, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic. During the second expedition, 1907-1909, he and three companions established a new record, Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, or 180 km) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Members of his team also climbed Mount Erebus, the most active volcano in the Antarctic. Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII for these achievements. He died during his third and last oceanographic and sub-antarctic expedition, aged 47. Illustration from The Heart of the Antarctic, Vol. I, by E. H. Shackleton, C.V.O. [William Heinemann, London, 1909]

© The Print Collector / Heritage-Images