A Northern Giant Petrel crosses the equator to make the “List”

A Northern Giant Petrel and chick; photograph by Janine Schoombie

The ACAP-listed Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli has been included in the Sixty-third Supplement to the Check-list of North American Birds, a publication of the American Ornithological Society. The supplement has been published in the journal, Ornithology. The inclusion of the Northern Giant Petrel is owing to its sighting by a fisherman off the coast of Ocean Park, Washington, U.S.A. 

First published in 1886, the Check-list is compiled by the AOS’s North American Classification Committee (NACC), the official authority on the names and classification of the region’s birds and is updated every summer. 

Access the full Check-list Supplement, here.

REFERENCE:

Chesser, R.T., Billerman, S.M., Burns, K.J., Cicero, C., Dunn, J.L., Hernández-Baños, B.E., Jiménez, R.A., Kratter, A.W., Mason, N.A., Rasmussen, P.C., Remsen Jr, J.R., Stotz, D.F., Winker, K. Sixty-third supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds, Ornithology, Volume 139, Issue 3, 7 July 2022, ukac020, https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukac020