Dataset

Royal penguin Eudyptes schlegeli census, Macquarie Island, 1984

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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.

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

Published: May 07, 2021 at 03:23

URL: https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=mi_royal_penguin

Geoff Copson
Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Water and the Environment (DPIWE)

D.E. Rounsevell
National Parks and Wildlife Service

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

Johnathan Kool

57
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 57
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 57
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 57
100.0%
ON_LAND 47
82.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data