Population estimates of emperor penguins at Amanda Bay, Ingrid Christensen Coast, Antarctica

Bibliographic Data

ID9220188
AuthorsBarbara Wienecke (0000-0002-1505-164X, Australian Antarctic Division), Peter Pedersen, Peter Heide Pedersen (0000-0001-8475-9687, Australian Antarctic Division)
Year2009
Volume45
Issue3
Pages207-214
Publication date2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolar Record (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0032247408007985
OpenAlexW2160700202
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

In 2008, the emperor penguin Aptenodytes forsteri colony at Amanda Bay, East Antarctica, was designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area by the 31st Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is only the third emperor penguin colony in the Australian Antarctic Territory to receive this status. The colony has been known to exist since 1956 and numerous visits have been made to it, especially by personnel from Australia's Davis station. On a number of occasions, attempts were made to estimate the number of birds in the colony in order to obtain an insight into the size of the breeding population. Here we report on the history of visitation to the colony since the 1950s and examine the quality of information collected with regard to the usefulness of this information in terms of population analyses. We also report the results of the first visit to the Amanda Bay colony made in winter with the specific purpose of estimating the number of birds present and of highlighting the need for long term monitoring programmes to assess the viability of emperor penguins in future

Archaeology · Bay · Biology · Emperor · Fishery · Geography · Population · Avian ecology and behavior · Demography · Ecology · Geology · Marine animal studies overview · Oceanography · Polar Research and Ecology

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