Foraging strategies and prey encounter rate of free-ranging Little Penguins

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

Data loggers were fitted to four Little Penguins in August 2002 to reconstruct the time/activity budget of free-ranging Little Penguins from Penguin Island, Western Australia as they foraged in the shallow waters of Comet Bay, Western Australia.

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Title Foraging strategies and prey encounter rate of free-ranging Little Penguins
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1bff8a07-fa6e-4297-9c3b-2a1430bc5743
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
B.Cannell@murdoch.edu.au
Reference Period 01/08/2002 - 01/08/2002
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Foraging strategies and prey encounter rate of free-ranging Little Penguins". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/foraging-strategies-and-prey-encounter-rate-of-free-ranging-little-penguins