Have you heard of The Penguin Project? Neither had I until I had the opportunity to attend the Wildlife Conservation Expo in San Francisco on October 3rd. Well, The Penguin Sentinels (formerly the Penguin project) has been established to protect and study the largest Magellanic penguin colony in the world. And for the last 25 years that is exactly what they have been doing. Here are the numbers from 1983-2008:
A total of 56,289 penguins banded
-42,137 chicks, 2,194 resighted
25,472 eggs measured
174,019 chick measurements
-56,568 individual chicks
443 satellite tags deployed
1,838 books of data
2,358,205 records
Check out The Penguin Sentinels great website!
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[...] the Penguin Project) and the incredible amount of work they have done for Magellanic penguins (Check out some stats) got me poking around the web.