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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. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/2788

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), moredata manager
Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, moredata creator

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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