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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
Subjects:
biota
oceans
PENGUINS
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
BIRDS
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
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Macquarie Island
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/royal-penguin-eudyptes-island-195253/687405
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/royals_macca_1952
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/display_collection.cfm?collection_id=132
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=
https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/2160/download
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Summary: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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