Royal penguin Eudyptes schlegeli census, Macquarie Island, 1984
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

iOBIS and Australian Antarctic Data Centre

The total number of Royal Penguins breeding on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island is estimated at 848,719 pairs based on two methods of estimation. The sizes and locations of all 57 colonies are given as a baseline for future changes in the species abundance. Current estimates of the sizes of two colonies are compared with historical estimates made by the Australian Antarctic Expedition in 1912-13. Note that the total estimate is included in the Inventory of Antarctic Seabirds dataset as a single record.

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Original data obtained from http://data.aad.gov.au/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2009-08-31. 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: 56) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

Copson, G.R., Rounsevell, D.E. (1986) The abundance of royal penguins ( Eudyptes schlegeli , Finsch) breeding at Macquarie Island. ANARE Research Notes 41. 11 pp

Data on iOBIS. 2009. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=1494, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/display_collection.cfm?collection_id=133, obtained on 2009-09-02

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