The protection of southern giant petrels should be increased by having a minimum distance of 50 m for all visitors.
The authors suggest a concentration of tourists when visiting southern giant petrel breeding sites to reduce repeated heart-rate increases and behavioural changes.
The current book is a work dedicated to three families of seabirds, namely albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters.
Therefore, the lower natural disturbance boundary was used as a reference for identifying the recommended minimum distance to southern giant petrels.
During nest counts, the behaviour of southern giant petrels in terms of relevant distances to tourists was also observed.
The only monitoring study on a burrowing species since cats were eradicated has been for white-chinned petrels.
In 1982 the author assisted in a project on the chemical composition of blue petrel chick guano.
At this time of year, prions and petrels are active.
