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Adelie

 penguin:  sen-nels  of  climate  and  environmental  change  because  they  integrate  the  
responses  of  lower  trophic  levels  over  large  spa-al  and  temporal  scales.  
Adelie  penguin:  “supercolonies”  (100-­‐300k  breeding  pairs  each)  

h;p://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/41509  
Danger  Islands  December  2015-­‐  January  2016  
home  to  several  penguin  “supercolonies”  (751k  breeding  pairs)    

Falklands  Islands  

Danger  Islands  
Our  survey  reveals  that  the  Danger  Islands  
Antarc-c  Peninsula   host  751,527  pairs  of  Adélie  penguins,  more  
than  the  rest  of  AP  region  combined,  and  
include  the  third  and  fourth  largest  Adélie  
penguin  colonies  in  the  world.    

lack  of  data  on  these  penguins’  diets,  reproduc-ve  parameters,  popula-on  dynamics  and  
gene-c  connec-vity  with  other  popula-ons  
Team  and  yacht  M/V  Hans  Hansson  
 

Alex  Borowicz1,  Philip  McDowall,  Casey  Youngflesh,  Thomas  Sayre-­‐McCord,  Gemma  Clucas,  
Steven  Forrest,  Tom  Hart,  Rachael  Herman,  Michael  Polito,  Melissa  Rider.  
(1)  Mul--­‐scale  popula-on  census  of  Adélie  penguins  and  other  marine  predators    
using  concurrent  ground  counts,  hexacopter-­‐based  aerial  photography  and    
high  resolu-on  satellite  imagery.  

8  Danger  Islands  
Automated
penguin
detection

Alex  Borowicz,    
Philip  McDowall,  
Casey  Youngflesh,  
Thomas  Sayre-­‐McCord  
Adélie  colonies  on  Heroína  Island  and  Beagle  Island    
to  be  among  the  largest  in  the  world:  
 292363  and  284535  breeding  pairs  

Flying  the  quadcopter  on  the  beach.  Heroína  Island  Phil,  Thomas  

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