The remains of a giant petrel are found on a Turkey shore

Robert Flood (FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, South Africa) & Emin Yoğurtcuoğlu have published in the journal Dutch Birding on the remains of a beach-cast giant petrel Macronectes sp. found and photographed in Turkey in 2013.

“The bird at Cevlik represents the first record of a giant petrel for Türkiye and the Middle East and the fourth for the Western Palearctic.  How the bird arrived at Cevlik shoreline will remain unknown; it may have arrived on the shore alive and then died, it may have died at sea and been washed up on the shore or it may have been transported by a ship into the eastern Mediterranean and thrown or washed overboard and then washed up on the shore.  Bill colouration and bill measurements indicate probable female Northern Giant Petrel [M. halli].”

Reference:

Flood, R. L. & Yoğurtcuoğlu, E. 2024.  Beach-cast giant petrel found at Cevlik, Türkiye, in November 2013.  Dutch Birding 46: 384-387.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 26 December 2024