Counting counting!

From left to right, Dave, Max (our firefighter guest), Leo and Michelle (Sara taking the picture!)

Our fieldwork will finish at the end of the week, we still have two more helicopter flights to do, but in the meantine we have been counting Cape Crozier (1664 penguins), Coulman Island (19 822 penguins), Cape Roget (5221 penguins) and Beaufort Island (462 penguins) colonies. We always try to turn the 3-hours (up to all day) counting sessions into a good team moment - pizzas time! We also had the help of Max, a firefighter, which was very nice! We are also starting to analyse the satellite images, determining the "penguin" pixels from the "guano (penguin poo) and ice" pixels.

Penguin counts