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title: "The remains of a giant petrel are found on a Turkey shore"
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# The remains of a giant petrel are found on a Turkey shore

 ![2024FloodEminGiantPetrel Turkey](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/N/Northern_Giant/2024FloodEminGiantPetrel_Turkey.png)

 Robert Flood ([FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology](https://science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick), University of Cape Town, South Africa) & Emin Yoğurtcuoğlu have published in the journal *[Dutch Birding](https://www.dutchbirding.nl/)* 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](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387268455_Beach-cast_giant_petrel_found_at_Cevlik_Turkiye_in_November_2013?fbclid=IwY2xjawHZrdNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbl2edAxbUlSCCRtJnK3FmV5_ELz3LKOSyw4AgVHdzMGr-k4bDV8XVzfUw_aem_cBmbfIHLbklEYgRm6n-pkA).

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