Royal penguin Eudyptes schlegeli observations at North Head, Macquarie Island 1952/53

Progress Code: completed Statement: The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. Observations of Royal Penguins at North Head, Macquarie Island were made to 2 purposes. First, general observations of the whole rookery, with counting birds, noting times of laying, hatchi...

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Other Authors: AADC (owner), AADC, DATA OFFICER (distributor), AADC, DATA OFFICER (custodian), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (hasAssociationWith), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher), Australian Antarctic Division (sponsor), WATTS, DAVE JOHN (collaborator), WATTS, DAVE JOHN (author)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
Subjects:
biota
oceans
EARTH SCIENCE &gt
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION &gt
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES &gt
BIRDS &gt
PENGUINS
census
egg laying
egg weights and dimensions
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
FIELD SURVEYS
FIELD INVESTIGATION
OBIS &gt
OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
COML &gt
CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE
EBA &gt
Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic
AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
MACQUARIE ISLAND
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Antarc*
Antarctic
Macquarie Island
Southern Ocean
Online Access:https://researchdata.edu.au/royal-penguin-eudyptes-island-195253/2822760
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Summary:Progress Code: completed Statement: The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. Observations of Royal Penguins at North Head, Macquarie Island were made to 2 purposes. First, general observations of the whole rookery, with counting birds, noting times of laying, hatching, changing of guard over the nests and habits of the penguins. Second, the detailed observation of marked nests for the determination of hatching periods, size of clutches and variations in the dimensions of the eggs. Census data from field report by Z Soucek (now deceased), lodged in the AAD archives.

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