Antarctic Specially Protected Area 101, Taylor Rookery (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Antarctic Specially Protected Area 101, Taylor Rookery (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Protected area
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Informal Antarctic/sub-Antarctic Gazetteer.
FORMERLY: Specially Protected Area (SPA) No. 1, Taylor Rookery The area was originally designated a Specially Protected Area because it contains a colony of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) which is one of the few, and probably the largest, of the known colonies of this species located wholly on land. Almost all other emperor penguin rookeries are located on sea ice. The rookery is also important because of long-term monitoring of the population of the penguins (since 1954). The colony is ideal for counting since it is surrounded by small rocky hills which make it possible to observe every bird without entering the breeding area. A photographic census program has been carried out annually since 1988, and it is believed that this method has resulted in almost complete accuracy of counting.
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