Royal penguin Eudyptes schlegeli census and observations at North Head, Macquarie Island 1952/53
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

iOBIS and Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Observations of Royal Penguins at North Head, Macquarie Island were made to 2 purposes. First, general observations of the whole rookery, with counting birds, noting times of laying, hatching, changing of guard over the nests and habits of the penguins. Second, the detailed observation of marked nests for the determination of hatching periods, size of clutches and variations in the dimensions of the eggs.

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Original data obtained from http://data.aad.gov.au/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2009-05-12. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 156) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

Census data from field report by Z Soucek, lodged in the AAD archives. Contact Dave Watts for details on citation details.

Data on iOBIS. 2009. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=723, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/display_collection.cfm?collection_id=132, obtained on 2009-05-12

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