THE DISTRIBUTION AND ESTIMATED ABUNDANCE O F ADELIE PENGUINS BREEDING IN PRYDZ BAY. ANTARCTICA

Abstract: This paper reports the results of the first aerial photographic survey of Adelie penguin colonies in the Prydz Bay region. The area surveyed extended from the northern Vestfold Hills to the Publications Ice Shelf. More than 325000 pairs of Adelie penguins were estimated to be breeding in t...

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Main Authors: Michael D. Whhehead, Gavin W. Johnstone
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Prydz Bay
Publications Ice Shelf
Rauer Islands
Vestfold
Vestfold Hills
Adelie penguin
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Shelf
Sea ice
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.550.9088
http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/polarbiosci/issues/pdf/1990-Whitehead.pdf
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Summary:Abstract: This paper reports the results of the first aerial photographic survey of Adelie penguin colonies in the Prydz Bay region. The area surveyed extended from the northern Vestfold Hills to the Publications Ice Shelf. More than 325000 pairs of Adelie penguins were estimated to be breeding in this region in 1981182. The great majority of breeding Adelie penguins occurred in the northern half of the region surveyed, in the Vestfold Hills and Rauer Islands, where most colonies were located. This is probably due to the typical pattern of summer sea-ice dis-persal, which usually results in sea-ice leaving the northern areas of coast first. 1.

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