Tracking of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) from Montague Islands, New South Wales coast, Australia (2012-2019)

LR Phillips; Gemma Carroll

doi:10.15468/4fcktz

Tracking of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) from Montague Islands, New South Wales coast, Australia (2012-2019)

Citation

Phillips L, Carroll G (2023). Tracking of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) from Montague Islands, New South Wales coast, Australia (2012-2019). CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/4fcktz accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

Penguins were tracked from a breeding colony on Montague Island (Baranguba) (36°15.11 S, 150° 13.60 E), 9 km off the southeast coast of New South Wales, Australia. Tracking was conducted during September and October over a 5-year period from 2015 to 2019. Penguins were tracked while brooding young chicks (0–4 weeks old) and therefore limited to making single-day foraging trips within approximately 25 km of the colony. This dataset contains additional tracking in the period 2012 to 2014. Data sourced from Dryad repositories referenced in the cited publications.

Taxonomic Coverages

Eudyptula minor
common name: Little penguin rank: species

Geographic Coverages

New South Wales coast, Australia -37.0810 to -35.8645 Longitude: 149.9433 to 150.3391

Bibliographic Citations

Phillips LR, Carroll G, Jonsen I, Harcourt R, Brierley AS, Wilkins A, Cox M. (2022) Variability in prey field structure drives inter-annual differences in prey encounter by a marine predator, the little penguin. R. Soc. Open Sci. 9: 220028. - https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220028
Carroll Gemma, Harcourt Robert, Pitcher Benjamin J., Slip David and Jonsen Ian (2018) Recent prey capture experience and dynamic habitat quality mediate short-term foraging site fidelity in a seabird Proc. R. Soc. B.28520180788 - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0788
Gemma Carroll, Martin Cox, Robert Harcourt, Benjamin J. Pitcher, David Slip, Ian Jonsen (2017) Hierarchical influences of prey distribution on patterns of prey capture by a marine predator. Functional Ecology Volume31, Issue 9 Pages 1750-1760 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12873

Contacts

LR Phillips
originator
position: Principal Investigator
Macquarie Universioty
Sydney
New South Wales
AU

Gemma Carroll
originator
position: Principal Investigator
Macquarie University
Sydney
New South Wales
AU
email: gemma.carroll@mq.edu.au
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-0946

LR Phillips
metadata author
position: Principal Investigator
Macquarie Universioty
Sydney
New South Wales

OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Data Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

LR Phillips
administrative point of contact
position: Principal Investigator
Macquarie Universioty