Foraging Distribution of an Antarctic Southern Giant Petrel Population

We present preliminary results on the foraging distribution of Southern Giant Petrels tagged with geolocators in Stinker Point, Elephant Island. Our results showed that Giant Petrels range over a large area from the Antarctic Peninsula until Southern South America, and there is notable segregation between male and female. Females tend to use the area they are distributed equally, while males remain more o en close to colonies, but the latitudes and longitudes they used in general were the same. at is quite di erent from literature, which indicate that Giant Petrel genders use distinct foraging areas, at least South American populations. Further results from the study are underway and we expect to add environmental variables to evaluate di erences between genders and try to explain their movements.