Macronectes halli, Northern giant petrel
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Macronectes halli   Mathews, 1912

Northern giant petrel
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Aves | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Others.  Polar

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic. Tropical to polar.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 94.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8812); max. published weight: 4.5 kg (Ref. 356)

Short description Morphology

Wing: 51.4 cm.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Total Length: 81 to 94 cm; Wingspan: 180 to 200 cm (Ref. 8812). Scavenging; surface seizing, plunging and diving (Ref. 356).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Southern Ocean Mollusc Database (SOMBASE) 2011 British Antarctic Survey, SOMBASE. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/66, 2011-07-15. (Ref. 87340)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 August 2018

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Appendix II: Migratory species conserved through agreements

Threat to humans

Human uses


FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Resilience
(Ref. 69278):		 High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=9.29-14.03)
Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 High vulnerability (58 of 100).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):		 Unknown.