Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Bechervaise Island and Kista Rock, 2013

• Other Authors: SOUTHWELL, COLIN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SOUTHWELL, COLIN (processor), EMMERSON, LOUISE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), EMMERSON, LOUISE (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; oceans; PENGUINS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; BIRDS; BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY; CLIMATE INDICATORS; BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS; COLONIES; GPS RECEIVERS; FIELD SURVEYS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; Southern Ocean; Kista; Kista Rock; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-rock-2013/945613; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58f8371004d47; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Bechervaise_Kista_2013; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Six colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season on Kista Island. On Bechervaise Island subcolonies C and R were not mapped and so are missing from the final layer, but birds were present in these subcolonies. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx) to log the track taken. The person walking the perimeter of the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of approximately 2.5m between themselves and the breeding birds along the sub-colony boundary. This buffer distance was reduced to approximately 2m in the final shapefiles.