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Southern Giant Petrel
Southern Giant Petrel
Macronectes giganteus
Aves
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
20-50 yrs
Size
Large
Diet
Carnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Colony
Biome
Southern Ocean
Range
Southern Hemisphere
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Stomach Oil
Status
Uncommon

About

The Southern Giant Petrel is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Adults of the two species can be distinguished by the color of their bill-tip: greenish in the southern and reddish in the northern.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    egg
    A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
  2. 2.
    hatchling
    A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
  3. 3.
    juvenile
    A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
  4. 4.
    adult
    Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Procellariidae
Genus
Macronectes
Species
Macronectes giganteus