Distribution and Floating Population of Birds on Penguin Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica

Abstract

Knowledge on the abundance and distribution of birds is extremely important for the assessment of potential populationuctuations of species and for how such uctuations may a ect their conservation. is study aims to perform the mapping of breeding and distribution of species that nested on Penguin Island (62º06'15''S; 57º55'30''W) in 2011/2012 and 2012