Evaluating opportunistic sighting records of large whales around South Georgia Island: Changes in distribution, relative abundance, and species composition of sightings and the efficacy of reporting methods

• Main Author: Richardson, Jessica
• Other Authors: Nowacek, Doug
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: South Georgia; whales; whaling; Antarctica; Antarctic; whale sightings; Bird Island; Shag Rocks; South Georgia Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; British Antarctic Survey; Humpback Whale; Killer Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; minke whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; South Georgia Museum; Southern Right Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5199

To examine general population trends of large whales in South Georgia waters, two opportunistic data sets of large whale sightings from 1991-2010 around South Georgia were analyzed: the South Georgia Museum log of whale sightings and British Antarctic Survey whale sighting reports from the Bird Isla...