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Mabuy
1961
Jan 14.
Journal
neats. Hence we concluded that the shores
were nesting in small numbers in case
of the cliff were nest sites were provided by
the topography. I felt we had covered 2/3 of
the cliff area not inhabited by penguins
fairly well & that even considering that
we had thus only gotten 20% of the
neats a pop. of 50 nesting pair was
indicated. I was wrong as we shall
see. Anyway we descended the cliff
& sat the tent had a can of fruit. Donald
& I shot 2 great fulmars after lunch &
I went off on another traverse through
penguinery where I spent the next couple
hours. About 6:30 we saw the
ship approaching & soon the helicopter
arrived.
The above is a brief resume of what was
done at Adare. The following are a few-
impresions. The Adare rookery is immense
compared to Hallett. The area of beach I would
judge to be 4 x that at Hallett. There are
several large ponds on the beach which
reduce the total area inhabited considerably.
Penguins seem more densely & evenly
distributed there are no large habitable
areas for penguins as there are at Hallett
except along the beaches themselves. I noticed