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The over-winter movements of a chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Rory P. Wilson ,
Boris M. Culik ,
Piotr Kosiorek  and
Dieter Adelung
Rory P. Wilson
Affiliation:
Institut für Meereskunde, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D–24105 Kiel, Germany
Boris M. Culik
Affiliation:
Institut für Meereskunde, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D–24105 Kiel, Germany
Piotr Kosiorek
Affiliation:
Department of Antarctic Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ustrzycka 10, 02–141 Warsaw, Poland
Dieter Adelung
Affiliation:
Institut für Meereskunde, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D–24105 Kiel, Germany
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Abstract

A single chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica), which had moulted at the South Shetland Islands, was subsequently tracked during 120 days at sea in the austral winter using a global location system (geolocation) based on light intensity. The bird moved east along the Scotia Ridge to a point approximately 300 km west of the South Sandwich Islands and approximately 1600 km away from the colony in which it had moulted. It spent more than 60% of its time in open water north of the edge of the pack ice.

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Polar Record , Volume 34 , Issue 189 , April 1998 , pp. 107 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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