Effects of human activity on King penguins on Macquarie Island

This project empirically measures the effects of human activity on the behaviour of King penguins on Macquarie Island, under ASAC project 1148. This was achieved by collecting behavioural responses of individual penguins exposed to pedestrian approaches across the breeding stages of incubation and guard. Information produced includes minimum approach guidelines.

As of April 2003 all data are stored on Hi-8 digital tape, due to be transformed during 2003 - 2004 into a timecoded tab-delimited text format for analysis using the Observer (Noldus Information Technology 2002).

The fields in this dataset are:

Sample
Date
Breeding Phase
Approach
Colony
Focal birds tape number
Wide angle tape number
Weather
Time
Windspeed
Temperature
Precipitation
Cloud
Pre-approach control
Post-approach control
Maximum approach distance