PARIS: A thriving ?hotspot? of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, surprised scientists said Friday. The first bird census of the Danger islands unearthed over 750,000 Adelie breeding pairs, more than the rest of the area combined, the team reported in the journal Scientific Reports. The group of nine rocky islands, which lie off the northern tip nearest South America, in the northwest Weddell Sea, housed the third- and fourth-largest Adelie penguin colonies in the world, they found.?It is certainly surprising and it has real consequences for how we manage this region,? study co-author Heather Lynch of Stony Brook University told.
03-03-2018, 09:16 AM
1.5m penguins discovered on remote Antarctic islands
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