. L'Emu : organe officiel de l'Australasian Ornithologists' Union. L'ornithologie, les oiseaux. Tome XVI.-J 1916 J TuLLOCH, l'île Macquarie pingouins. 95 Les trois-quarts de million d'oiseaux. Au pépites, où les Royals sont abattus, la région est au moins 10 acres, contenant plus d'un demi-million d'oiseaux. Ils sont tellement épais dans les colonies que vous avez un coup de pied votre chemin à travers eux. Au pied des nuggets Gully, où ces oiseaux Rendez-et-vient de la mer, je les ai comptés en passant un point au taux de 150 par minute. Cela continue dans la saison pendant environ dix à quinze heures par jour.

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. The Emu : official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Ornithology; Birds. Vol. XVI.-I 1916 J TuLLOCH, Macquarie Island Penguins. 95 three-quarters of a million birds. At The Nuggets, where the Royals are slaughtered, the area is at least 10 acres, containing over half a million birds. They are so thick in the rookeries that you have to kick your way through them. At the foot of The Nuggets Gully, where these birds go to and fro from the sea, I counted them passing a point at the rate of 150 each way per minute. This continues in the season for about ten to fifteen hours a day. There are about 150, 000 birds killed every season at The Nuggets, but the annual increase would be about 40 per cent, to 50 per cent, in sjMte of this. and. as I stated, this is the only part. The Sea-Leopard, an Enemy of the Penguins, Macquarie Island. at present where they are molested. The first oil season com- mences about the beginning of January and lasts for three weeks, until the old go to sea. In February both the old and the previous year's young (which are very fat) return in great numbers to moult. This time they are detained on the beach as far as possible by the sealers, who put wire-netting across the creek. Flocks of birds are driven into a wire-netting enclosure, and the young, fat birds are drafted off and clubbed and put into a digester. This is about the most humane and only practical way of killing the birds, and I found the headman very particular about killing the birds. I think the oil industry at the present scale has very. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

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