At-sea GPS tracks of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) tagged at three colonies around Storm Bay (Boronia Beach, Wedge Island and Bruny Island Neck), Tasmania, Australia over the 2015/16 summer breeding season.

Lachlan Phillips

doi:10.15468/u8kym4

At-sea GPS tracks of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) tagged at three colonies around Storm Bay (Boronia Beach, Wedge Island and Bruny Island Neck), Tasmania, Australia over the 2015/16 summer breeding season.

Citation

Phillips, L., Lea, M.A., Hindell, M., Hobday, A. (2017), Little penguin tracking in Storm Bay - Summer 2015/16. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania. Data accessed from http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/meta data.show?uuid=db737c5a-708f-4929-b0f6-376366a8a5a5 on (date accessed). https://doi.org/10.15468/u8kym4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-01-19.

Description

This data contains at-sea GPS tracks of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) tagged at three colonies around Storm Bay, Tasmania (Boronia Beach, Wedge Island and Bruny Island Neck) over the 2015/16 summer breeding season. This data was collected as part of an honours thesis submitted in 2016. Metadata details are at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.show?uuid=db737c5a-708f-4929-b0f6-376366a8a5a5

The tracking data occurrences is complimented with the deployment and retrieval times (occurrenceids tagged with -deploy and -retrive respectively). Additional information of the number of chicks in the nest, their estimated age, the bill biometrics of the adult bird and its weight upon deployment are linked to the initial deployment record.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Eudyptula minor
common name: Little Penguin rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Derwent Estuary and Storm Bay, Tasmania

Bibliographic Citations

Phillips LR, Hindell M, Hobday AJ, Lea MA (2019) Variability in at-sea foraging behaviour of little penguins Eudyptula minor in response to finescale environmental features. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 627:141-154. - https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13095

Contacts

Lachlan Phillips
originator
position: Principal Investigator
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
IMAS - Hobart, Private Bag 129
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU
email: lachlan.phillips.00@gmail.com

Lachlan Phillips
metadata author
position: Principal Investigator
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
IMAS - Hobart, Private Bag 129
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU
email: lachlan.phillips.00@gmail.com

Dave Watts
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Node Manager
CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
PO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
Telephone: +61 3 6232 5062
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

Lachlan Phillips
administrative point of contact
position: Principal Investigator
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
IMAS - Hobart, Private Bag 129
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU
email: lachlan.phillips.00@gmail.com