Follow Adelie Penguins on the Journey into the Long Polar Night

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Posted March 29, 2019

Image: Copyright Chris Linder

An article in the most recent edition of Audubon Magazine focusses Antarctica’s Adelie penguin and the researchers who have spent decades studying them, including NSF funded biologist David Ainley.

The story asserts that "New research to discover the birds' mysterious winter foraging grounds may help protect the species as climate change transforms Antarctica."

The story notes: "Adélies are sea-ice obligate and so as the sea ice goes, so does the species,” says [Ainley]. Even as Adélie populations shrink on the Antarctic Peninsula, the Ross Sea population continues to grow: Its 870,000 pairs now make up one-third of Adélies globally."

The photographs that accompany the piece were shot by Chris Linder, an experienced polar photographer who once to deployed to Antarctica under the auspices of OPP’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0839980 / Raptor of the South

Read the full story here: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2019/follow-adelie-penguins-their-journey-long-polar