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GPS tracks gentoo penguins at Signy Island, South Orkneys Islands, 2011-2016
This dataset comprises Global Positioning System (GPS) data for gentoo penguins, Pygoscelid papua, at Signy Island, South Orkneys Islands, from December 2011 to January 2016 (austral summer). Gentoo penguins were fitted with GPS tags at Signy Island to better understand their movement for seabird conservation and management. This data includes GPS positions at specified intervals for deployed tags, with additional metadata on the morphology of the birds, their deployment and breeding.
Work was carried out by personnel at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to BAS.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-03-03
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-03-03
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-03-03
- Date (released)
- 2025-03-03
- Edition
- 1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/9cb04ca6-f88f-4368-b715-45ff73ff81eb
- Codespace
- doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02023
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: Ratcliffe, N., Manco, F., & Manthorpe, S.J. (2025). GPS tracks gentoo penguins at Signy Island, South Orkneys Islands, 2011-2016 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9cb04ca6-f88f-4368-b715-45ff73ff81eb
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- Status
- completed Completed
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Diurnal Movements
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Feeding Habitat
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Food-web Dynamics
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Indicator Species
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Population Dynamics
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Range Changes
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Trophic Dynamics
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology
- Theme
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- GPS
- Gentoo penguin
- Global Positioning System
- Pygoscelid papua
- Signy Island
- Tracking
- Place
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- Signy Island, South Orkney Islands Antarctica
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Other constraints
- This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/
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- This data is governed by the NERC data policy and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3
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- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
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- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 2011-12-21
- End date
- 2016-01-25
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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Methodology:
Global Positioning system (GPS) devices were fitted to 11 gentoo penguins on Signy Island in December, over two seasons between 2011 to 2016. Breeding penguins were caught during incubation and guard periods and fitted with GPS loggers (Sirtrack Fastloc) using Tessa tape and a two-part quick-setting glue. Handling time did not exceed 10 minutes for deployment and 5 minutes for retrieval. Loggers were always less than 1 percent of the bird's body mass.
Devices were retrieved on average after 4.7 days.
GPS loggers recorded locations every 4 minutes, with longer intervals if the GPS could not connect to satellites (when the bird was underwater).
The number of deployed and retrieved tags per year are as follows:
2013-2014: 10
2015-2016: 1
Data collection:
Sirtrack Fastloc 33 F2G133A (38.4 g in air, 65 x 28 x 22 mm) with 40 mm whip antenna
Sirtrack Fastloc 33 F3G133A (31.0 g in air, 63 x 24 x 22 mm) with 40 mm whip antenna
Data quality:
Files were included the timestamp, latitude and longitude in decimal degrees. Any NaN or '0.00' values (in latitude and longitude) were removed.
Where the sex of the bird was not known, 'U' was used in the metadata file.
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- 9cb04ca6-f88f-4368-b715-45ff73ff81eb XML
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
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- utf8 UTF8
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- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-03
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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