Abstract:
The weights of fledging Macaroni penguin chicks at Bird Island have been monitored since 1989. The colony at Fairy Point, also known as Little Mac, contains approximately 400 breeding pairs. Each year, just before their departure from the colony, a sample of 100 fledgling birds are weighed as part of the Bird Island long-term monitoring programme. This data is submitted to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) as part of their Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (CEMP).
This work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to the British Antarctic Survey.
Keywords:
Bird Island, Eudyptes chrysolophus, Macaroni penguin, fledging mass
Trathan, P., Waluda, C., & Ratcliffe, N. (2021). Fledging weights of Macaroni penguin chicks from a colony at Fairy Point, Bird Island, from 1989 to 2020 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/85356871-55ee-4b92-a9e8-9b370c843936
| Use Constraints: | This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ The dataset should be cited as follows: Trathan, P., Waluda, C., & Ratcliffe, N. (2021). Fledging weights of Macaroni penguin chicks from a colony at Fairy Point, Bird Island, from 1989 to 2020 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/85356871-55EE-4B92-A9E8-9B370C843936 |
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| Creation Date: | 2008-09-02 |
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| Dataset Progress: | In Work |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | UK Polar Data Centre |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Philip N Trathan |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Claire M Waluda |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Norman Ratcliffe |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Waluda CM, Hill SL, Peat HJ, Trathan PN. (2012). Diet variability and reproductive perfomance of macaroni penguins <i>Eudyptes chrysolophys</i> at Bird Island, South Georgia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 466: 261-274. doi:10.3354/meps09930 | |
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| Lineage: | 100 Macaroni penguin chicks at Fairy Point (Little Mac) are caught and weighed on the 18th February each year. All chicks are weighed using a 10kg Pesola and bag. Care is taken to ensure no individual is weighed more than once. All sampling procedures used are regulated by the British Antarctic Survey Ethical Review Committee in collaboration with Cambridge University and the UK Home Office. | |
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| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 1989-02-06 |
| End Date | 2020-02-18 |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -54.01 |
| Northernmost | -54.01 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -38.0767 |
| Easternmost | -38.0767 |
| Altitude | |
| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | South Georgia Island |
| Detailed Location | Fairy Point, Bird Island |
| Data Storage: | x1 .csv file |
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