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Remote-tracking technology has revealed the winter whereabouts of two of our largest seabirds.
In brief: Tracking a winter wayfarer
Every April, 100,000 rockhopper penguins simply disappear. Nobody knows where they go, but NIWA means to find out. Dr David Thompson will lead a trip to subantarctic Campbell Island in April next year to fit miniature geolocating data loggers to around 80 of the penguins before they vanish for the winter.