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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