Adelie Penguin Telemetry Data

The dataset contains geographic location estimates of Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) tracked via Argos satellite telemetry in the Southern Ocean for the U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources project from 1996-10-29 to 2013-02-19. Birds were instrumented with back-mounted Argos satellite transmitters at the Copacabana Colony (62.21S, 58.42W) on King George Island during the austral summer breeding seasons (October - February) from 1996 to 2013. Typical deployments during the breeding season lasted 5 to 8 days, while some winter deployments lasted several months. The data set identifies the sex of the bird tracked (male, female, or unknown) and the age of the bird (adult). The data also identify the breeding stage of the bird during the summer tracking period (incubation, brood/guard, or creche) or is noted as 'winter' if tracked outside the summer breeding season. The data include the date (DD/MM/YYYY) and time (GMT) of the location estimate. Finally, a categorical estimate of uncertainty in the location estimate is provided by Argos quality codes (3,2,1,0,A,B).

Telemetry data provide a clear window into the essential foraging habitats used by marine predators. Identification of these foraging habitats and assessment of their overlap with fisheries that target prey therein can be useful for developing advice on the spatial distributions of catch.

https://doi.org/10.25921/vdt2-vr91

NCEI Accession 0244399

http://seabirdtracking.org/mapper/?dataset_id=910

Hinke JT, AM Cossio, ME Goebel, CS Reiss, WZ Trivelpiece, GM Watters. 2017. Identifying risk: Concurrent overlap of the Antarctic krill fishery with krill-dependent predators in the Scotia Sea. PLoS One. 12(1): e0170132. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0170132

Oosthuizen WC, Pistorius PA, Korczak-Abshire M, Hinke JT, Santos M, Lowther AD. 2022. The Foraging Behavior of Nonbreeding Adélie Penguins in the Western Antarctic Peninsula during the Breeding Season. Ecosphere13(5): e4090. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4090

Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of NOAA, the National Marine Fisheries Service, US AMLR or its partners.

FAO Area 48.1, CCAMLR Area 48.1, Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands, South Orkney Islands

Available online at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2v6wwpzkh

Also part of the seabird tracking database: http://seabirdtracking.org/, dataset ID 910

https://doi.org/10.25921/vdt2-vr91

http://seabirdtracking.org/mapper/?dataset_id=910

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Data were collected using agreed, standard field protocols.

Data are stored on a server at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center which has all appropriate access controls, and archived at the NCEI with assigned DOI (see title section for DOI information).

Raw data are collected by researchers at land based stations, , reviewed for QA/QC and later on shore-based servers.