Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

G. Jimenez-Uzcategui: "Macronectes sp. (either Southern Giant-Petrel, Macronectes giganteus, or Northern Giant-Petrel, Macronectes halli). One carcass, dead for a long time, found in April 1978 on Pinta Island, and not identified to species (Harris 1981in Wiedenfeld 2006)".

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: One carcass, dead for a long time, found in April 1978 on Pinta Island, and not identified to species (Harris 1981), skeleton specimen now in MECCD.

• Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
• Harris, M.P. (1981) La avifauna de Galápagos. In: Eberhardt, U. (ed.): Compendio de ciencia en Galápagos. Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador, p. 261-282.
• IUCN (2015) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.
• Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.