Penguin studies planned on Ice
Penguins will feature in several Antarctic studies planned by New Zealand scientists this summer.
Tiny transmitters will be attached to the backs of six female Adelie penguins in a joint D.S.LR.-University of Otago study to trace the movements of the birds. The five-week study will follow successful testing of prototype transmitters last season.
A University of Canterbury team will count Adelie penguins at Cape Bird and Cape Royds, and the Ecology Division of the D.S.I.R. will continue an aerial photographic survey of penguin colonies along the
coastline of the Ross Dependency. Efforts will be made to rejuvenate a penguin rookery at Cape Hallett which was disrupted during the construction of a joint New Zealand-United States station in the late 19505. The base has been closed since 1973. Maintenance staff from the department’s Antarctic Division will spend a month at the station this summer to clean up the site and reduce the effects of human habitation. Scientists from Lincoln College will survey the site to record changes in the penguin population.
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