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NIKON CORPORATION
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NIKON D2Xs
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Manual
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420 mm
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200
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Multi-Segment
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Sat 25 Jun 2011 12:41:59 PM EDT
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English Southern Giant Petrel
Scientific (Macronectes giganteus)
Order PROCELLARIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Procellariidae
Family (English) Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels
Other name(s) Antarctic Giant-Petrel, Pétrel géant, Petrel Gigante del Sur, Southern Giant-Petrel
Breeding Regions SO, AN
Breeding Range Subregions is. and coasts of s Chile and Argentina and Antarctica to Heard (sc Indian Ocean) and Macquarie is. (far se of Australia)
Nonbreeding Range Subregions widespread in all s oceans and cold currents to n, often s of Antarctic Convergence, often along beaches
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Antarctica,Argentina,Australia,Brazil,Chile,Congo,Ecuador - mainland,Gabon,Kenya, Madagascar,Mauritius,Mozambique,Namibia,New Zealand,Papua New Guinea,Peru,Reunion,South Africa,Tanzania, Uruguay,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
German Riesensturmvogel
French Pétrel géant
Chinese 巨鹱
Japanese オオフルマカモメ
Russian Южный гигантский буревестник
Spanish Abanto marino antártico
Portuguese pardelão-do-antártico
Bird Data App text Compare to Northern Giant Petrel.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)