The Tawaki Project – Antipodes-Bounty Expedition 2023/24 – 20 November 2023-2 February 2024
Thomas Mattern
Abstract
The Tawaki Project returns to Antipodes Island in November 2023 for an extended stay until the end of January 2024 with a short visit to the Bounties on the way home. This provides the opportunity to conduct an extended GPS logger study on both Erect-crested and Eastern Rockhopper penguins during the chick-guard and crèching stage of breeding. Drone surveys are flown and satellite transmitters deployed on Erect-crested penguins to study the species pre-moult dispersal after the conclusion of the breeding season.
The Tawaki Project – Bounty-Antipodes Expedition 2022 – 8 November – 21 December 2022
Thomas Mattern
Abstract
Report on the Tawaki Project’s Bounty-Antipodes-Expedition 2022 that conducted a full survey of the Erect-crested penguins’ world population using camera drones, and studied the foraging behaviour of Erect-crested penguins and Eastern Rockhopper penguins from the Antipodes Islands using GPS dive loggers and stable isotope analysis. The report summaries research activities as well as other observations and activities that were made on the subantarctic Bounty and Antipodes Islands.
