During nest counts, the behaviour of southern giant petrels in terms of relevant distances to tourists was also observed.
This perhaps unparalleled breadth of comparative study on petrels undertaken over 30 years is reflected in the general chapters, as important insights often come from personal experience.
I need not stress that we are also concerned with other animals and wildlife, particularly birds such as the albatross, penguins, petrels, skuas and fulmas.
The protection of southern giant petrels should be increased by having a minimum distance of 50 m for all visitors.
Cape petrels breed on one rock in the rarely visited south of the island.
The current book is a work dedicated to three families of seabirds, namely albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters.
In 1982 the author assisted in a project on the chemical composition of blue petrel chick guano.
The populations of storm petrels were estimated by nocturnal calls of the birds.
