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Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Windmill Island group, 2012 - 2013

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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An occupancy survey in January 2011 found a total of 14 islands/sites in Windmill group had populations of breeding Adelie penguins. The boundaries of breeding colonies at 11 of the 14 islands were subsequently mapped for abundance surveys. Seven islands were mapped on the ground with GPS: Whitney Point, Blakeney Point, Shirley Island, Odbert Island, Berkley Island, Cameron Island and O'Connor Island between 10 December 2012 to 9 January 2013 ). The buffer distance was reduced to 1-2 m in the shapefiles created from the ground maps. Ground mapping involved circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx or Vista C) to log the track taken. The person walking around the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of 2-3 m between themselves and the penguins at the sub-colony boundary to minimise disturbance. Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

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Title Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Windmill Island group, 2012 - 2013
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e0140a2c-dbee-4663-9634-8b1a2f3ea61b
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 10/12/2012 - 09/01/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Windmill Island group, 2012 - 2013". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/adelie-penguin-occupancy-survey-of-the-windmill-island-group-2012-2013