Name: Aerial Photographic Census of Birds in the Windmill Islands in 1990-91
Published: 2000-07-21
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES,BIRDS,PENGUINS,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS,SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS,SPECIES LIFE HISTORY,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS,SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS,POPULATION DYNAMICS,CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA,GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR,Cameras,Aircraft,AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS,ABUNDANCE,AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY,ADELIE PENGUINS,WINDMILL ISLANDS,DISTRIBUTION,POPULATION

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Citation: Woehler, E. (2000) Aerial Photographic Census of Birds in the Windmill Islands in 1990-91, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/ASAC_1219_AAT_Img_C_90, Accessed: 2026-05-07
Title: Aerial Photographic Census of Birds in the Windmill Islands in 1990-91
Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date: 2000-07-21
Revision Date: 2021-11-23
Parent record: Seabirds_AAT

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Description

Population data derived from counts of penguins on aerial photographs taken at 500m altitude. Odbert Island colonies were not photographed as the island is within ASPA 103. 23 flight runs were made. Census data for Whitney Point and Shirley Island were included in Woehler et al 1994. Census data for the remaining islands will be incorporated into a regional synthesis following aerial photography planned for 2004/05.

Penguins were counted from the photographs by eye.

This project was instigated under a one off ASAC project (ASAC_234), but has now been subsumed under ASAC_1219.

Copies of the maps as PDF and TIFF downloads are available through the SCAR Map Catalogue
(see the links in the related links section)

Quality

Aerial photography was obtained using a Linhof camera from helicopter overflights of all Adelie penguin colonies, with the exception of Odbert Island (ASPA 103).

Access

Hard copies of photographs are available in the AADC. All flight lines have been entered into the Aerial Photograph Catalogue (see the URL given below).

Tracings of the penguin colony boundaries by Eric Woehler are stored in the Australian Antarctic Division's Map Store.

Temporal Coverages

Start date: 1990-12-16 - Stop date: 1990-12-16

Spatial Coverages

Latitude

Northernmost:
Southernmost:

Longitude

Westernmost:
Easternmost:

Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HISTORY
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS

Additional Keywords

ABUNDANCE
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
ADELIE PENGUINS
WINDMILL ISLANDS
DISTRIBUTION
POPULATION

Locations

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Platforms

Aircraft
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Instruments

Cameras

Researchers

woehler, eric (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)

Use Constraints

This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_1219_AAT_Img_C_90 when using these data.

Metadata details

ASAC_1219_AAT_Img_C_90