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title: "A Northern Giant Petrel crosses the equator to make the “List”"
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# A Northern Giant Petrel crosses the equator to make the “List”

![Janine Schoombie NGP 9 WEB](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/N/Northern_Giant/Janine_Schoombie_NGP_9_WEB.jpg)*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](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/3483-a-long-way-from-home-a-northern-giant-petrel-gets-photographed-in-the-north-pacific?highlight=WyJoYWxsaSIsImVxdWF0b3IiXQ==) 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](https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukac020).[https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukac020](https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukac020)

 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](https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukac020)