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An Adélie penguin and Quadcopter on Brash Island.

An Adélie penguin and Quadcopter on Brash Island.
An Adélie penguin and Quadcopter on Brash Island.
An Adélie penguin and Quadcopter on Brash Island.
An Adélie penguin and Quadcopter on Brash Island.
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Herman, Rachael
An Adélie penguin and Quadcopter on Brash Island.
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12/17/2015
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New "supercolony" of more than 1.5 million Adélie penguins in the Danger Islands, Antarctica.
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A curious Adélie penguin checks out a modified commercial quadcopter drone that researchers used along with estimations from ground counts to complete the first census of the species in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsulas northern tip. The research team led by WHOI seabird ecologist Stephanie Jenouvrier found that the islands have 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguinsmore than the rest of the entire Antarctic Peninsula region combined.
Photo by Rachael Herman
© Stony Brook University and Louisiana State University
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