Some news from our last two weeks in McMurdo!
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| Emperor and Adélie penguins on sea ice! |
The flights were really interesting with emperor penguins moving within the ice shelf crack during the season!
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| 3rd flight! |
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| 3rd flight! |
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| 3rd flight! |
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| 4th flight! |
We also observed an usual behaviour of Adélie penguins attempting to nest on sea ice, which has been rarely observed so far. Indeed, contrary to emperor penguins, they can't prevent the eggs to be in contact with sea ice, thus the one nesting in the sea ice would certainly have their eggs frozen if they reached the laying stage. This is one of the reasons Adélie penguins usually nest on rocks!
We also continued our outreach skype session, Leo did a skype in the aquarium while Michelle spoke to students from observation hill!
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