Seasonal change in the foraging ecology of emperor penguins on the Mawson Coast, Antarctica

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Kirkwood, Roger, Robertson, Graham
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter Research 1997
• Subjects: Antarctic; Auster; Mawson Coast; Taylor Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; antarcticus; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/51874/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/51874/2/m156p205.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps156205

We investigated the foraging location, diving behaviour, dietary composition, feeding rates and foraging trip durations of emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri raising chicks at the Auster and Taylor Glacier colonies on the Mawson Coast of Antarctica in the winter, spring and early summer of 1993,...