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Gentoo penguin nesting chronology at Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1988 to 2019 - VERSION 1.0
The chronology of Gentoo penguins on Bird Island, South Georgia has been monitored since 1988 (no data for 1989-90 or 1990-91). 30 nests are marked in the colony at Square Pond, and 40 in the Johnson Beach colony. Regular checks are made to record when eggs are laid and the peak laying date (when 75% of nests have eggs) is calculated.
This work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to the British Antarctic Survey.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2008-09-02
- Date (Revision)
- 2008-09-02
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-09-02
- Date (released)
- 2008-09-02
- Edition
- 1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/f9993ee9-085f-42cf-b008-5373526b2bcf
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- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00332
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- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: Trathan, P., Waluda, C., & Ratcliffe, N. (2021). Gentoo penguin nesting chronology at Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1988 to 2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f9993ee9-085f-42cf-b008-5373526b2bcf
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- Theme
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- Bird Island
- Gentoo penguin
- Pygoscelis papua
- chronology
- Place
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- Square Pond, Bird Island South Georgia Island
- Johnson Beach, Bird Island South Georgia Island
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- Trathan, P., Waluda, C., & Ratcliffe, N. (2021). Gentoo penguin nesting chronology at Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1988 to 2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/F9993EE9-085F-42CF-B008-5373526B2BCF
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 1988-10-08
- End date
- 1988-10-08
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- 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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Colony checks at Square Pond and Johnson Beach are started on or around 7 October. The colonies are checked regularly (every 3-4 days) until nest building begins. Once nest building has started, nests are marked. At Johnson: 40 concrete flagged nest markers are placed at random through the colony and the nest nearest to sea is taken as the study nest. At Square Pond: 30 nests are staked at random through the colony with flagged stakes. Both colonies are visited every 2 days once nests have been marked and records made of when eggs are laid in each study nest. The date when 75% of nests have at least one egg is then calculated.
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