Tag: penguins

May 17, 2019

Watch: Biodiversity in Antarctica, thanks to poop

The Antarctic Peninsula can be a brutal place, but penguins and seals have created biodiversity hotspots, researchers found, thanks to their nitrogen-rich scat. Biologists found ammonia from their feces is...

October 30, 2017

8-year-old’s penguin project makes splash at TWS Conference

Like many 8-year-olds, Mikail Bakhtiyarov likes swimming, playing basketball and reading. Unlike most kids his age, however, he has a reference library containing hundreds of wildlife books on everything from...

March 22, 2016

Drones more precise for seabird monitoring

Frigatebirds nesting on the ground among herbaceous vegetation in tropical areas or penguins in remote sub-Antarctic areas of Australia are difficult for some researchers to get to and monitor. But new...