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Effects of human activity on King penguins on Macquarie Island

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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This project empirically measures the effects of human activity on the behaviour of King penguins on Macquarie Island, under ASAC project 1148. This was achieved by collecting behavioural responses of individual penguins exposed to pedestrian approaches across the breeding stages of incubation and guard. Information produced includes minimum approach guidelines. As of April 2003 all data are stored on Hi-8 digital tape, due to be transformed during 2003 - 2004 into a timecoded tab-delimited text format for analysis using the Observer (Noldus Information Technology 2002). The fields in this dataset are: Sample Date Breeding Phase Approach Colony Focal birds tape number Wide angle tape number Weather Time Windspeed Temperature Precipitation Cloud Pre-approach control Post-approach control Maximum approach distance

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Title Effects of human activity on King penguins on Macquarie Island
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a94182d6-55b0-4b82-aca0-6774b5224bfe
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 20/10/2002 - 20/03/2003
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Effects of human activity on King penguins on Macquarie Island". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/effects-of-human-activity-on-king-penguins-on-macquarie-island