Penguin Watch Talk

Penguin Watch featured in BBC News website

  • wildmonster by wildmonster

    7 April 2016 BBC News website:
    "Penguin Watch: Public asked to aid Antarctic research"

    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35981212

    A side note: The BBC piece mentions a penguin census done by the Oceanites group. I have been following this organisation's work, and its latest findings indicate that Gentoo chicks have done poorly this year in some areas of Antarctica, but Gentoo populations as a whole seems to be increasing; populations of Chinstraps and Adelies, on the other hand, are declining.

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    Hello wildmonster!! It's wonderful to see you again - and so knowledgeable as ever 😄

    Thanks for that BBC Newscast item. It is helpful for us to have a copy of that. Your news about chicks and colonies is worrying in part. The only site (if I recall correctly) that we have seen over the last 18 months or so is the group we now call Sooty from Petermann Island. I hope we continue to see it for the data collected during their last summer season.

    Do keep in touch - I'll try to pop into Oceanites from time to time 😄

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    A full report from the PenguinWatch team in Antarctica on is available now on BBC online: Our World: The Penguin Watchers, Saturday and Sunday at 2130 on the BBC News Channel: link address:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct0bx2

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