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Macaroni penguins diving activity at Marion Island 2008
Citation
Ryan PG, Ropert-Coudert Y. Editors. 2011. Diving activity of Macaroni Penguins at Marion Island. Database. version 18 February 2011

Description
Diving activity (recorded using Little Leonardo, Japan, logger with an absolute accuracy of 0.1 m and a sampling interval of 1sec) of 6 female Macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus brooding small chicks (1-3 weeks old) at Marion Island (46º52’S, 37º51’E), South Africa, between 17-23 December 2008.

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Data logging, Diving, Marion Island, Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837)

Geographical coverage
Marion Island

Temporal coverage
17 December 2008 - 23 December 2008
Quasi continuous (< 1 min.)

Taxonomic coverage
Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837) [WoRMS]

Parameters
Body mass, Depth, Diet composition

Contributors
Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien; Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE)data manager
Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, moredata creator
Ryan, Peter

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2011-02-15
Information last updated: 2011-02-15
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