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title: "New Zealand bird rescue organization starts releasing young Northern Giant Petrels after treatment"
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# New Zealand bird rescue organization starts releasing young Northern Giant Petrels after treatment

The [New Zealand Bird Rescue Charitable Trust](http://birdrescue.org.nz/) has commenced to release the six juvenile Northern Giant Petrels *Macronectes halli* that is has taken into care over the last several weeks.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/N/Northern_Giant/phpMm3IwBAM.jpg)

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/N/Northern_Giant/NPG captive.jpg)

 Northern Giant Petrels under care, photographs by the New Zealand Bird Rescue Charitable Trust

 Three birds were released at the end of last month at [Muriwai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriwai) in the Auckland region of New Zealand’s North Island from where they flew out to sea.

 Read more in the [*New Zealand Herald*](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11283911) and in an [earlier report](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/news/latest-news/1765-a-southern-giant-petrel-juvenile-travels-from-gough-island-in-the-south-atlantic-to-new-zealand) in *ACAP Latest News*.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 07 July 2014*