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title: "A cliff-hanger of a story: a Northern Giant Petrel kills a Sooty Albatross chick on Marion Island"
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# A cliff-hanger of a story: a Northern Giant Petrel kills a Sooty Albatross chick on Marion Island

Ben Dilley ([FitzPatrick Institute](http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/), University of Cape Town) describes in the on-line/open access journal [*Ornithological Observations*](http://oo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=99) how a Northern Giant Petrel *Macronectes halli* managed to land on a cliff ledge and kill a Sooty Albatross *Phoebetria fusca* chick on sub-Antarctic Marion Island.

 Great pictures!

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

 A Northern Giant Petrel on Marion Island, photographed by Marienne de Villiers

 **Reference:**

 Dilley, B.J. 2013.  Living on the edge: Sooty Albatross chick killed by a Northern Giant Petrel.  [*Ornithological Observations* 4: 138-142](http://oo.adu.org.za/pdf/OO_2013_04_138-142.pdf).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 30 October 2013*