ML617485999
Contributor
Heather Williams Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Penguin Parade
Bass Coast, Victoria, Australia
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Observation details
Conservative estimate. Breeding season in rookery that is estimated to have around 40,000 birds in breeding season. Arriving in small groups and running part way up the beach and then back down to the breakers. When there were around 100 in the group the made their way up the beach and into the rookery where they went to their mate in a burrow. This process occured numerous times and in different spots along the beach in the hour we observed. There were also a large number of birds in the sand dunes waiting for their mates to return.
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- 1.47 MB