Tab.1: Tabulation of pinguin population within the Antarctic Peninsula region ...

• Main Author: Woehler, Eric J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Species; Number of species; Month; Comment; Dive, maximum depth; Multiple investigations; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Sea ice; South Orkney Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.757565; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.757565

Six species of penguins breed on the Antarctic continent, the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands. Their breeding populations within the Antarctic Peninsula, and the South Orkney and South Shetland Is., and estimates of global populations are given. Typical breeding seasons are also presented, but it must be noted that these will vary inter-annually and intra-annually under the influence of factors such as sea-ice extent and ENSO (interannual) and the location of each breeding colony (southerly localities will be later than northerly localities, as their breeding season is "compressed" within the shorter summer). Their foraging strategies (categorized as near-shore or offshore) and typical durations of foraging trips are also tabulated. As with breeding season events, foraging behaviour will vary intra-seasonally and inter-seasonally (in terms of dive duration, dive depth, foraging location, etc). The distribution of known penguin breeding colonies is circum-continental, with ...