andrea ray and her team are installing an automatic monitor. system for the penguins they fitted some of the birds with a special chip a sensor records they movement in order to track general activity across the colony penguins do look helpless on land at least but they're excellent divers and swimming some magellanic penguins make it all the way to europe y. and brazil covering a distance of 4000 kilometer. winds are guardians of the ocean they're also a gauge of how healthy they were ecosystems are. examining their food intake how far they swim to find that food and their reproductive rate and they build lists to see how these species which are dependent on the ocean are fairing. penguins go on shore to mates and raise their young and extremely sensitive phase of their lives which is under threat from growing pollution the nesting holes are increasingly filled with plastic waste which mainly comes from the nearby city of. 90 percent of the nests contain plastic waste. as do the animal stomachs and faces. the sea currents and winds carry the p

andrea ray has won an award for his insights into the impact of humans on the. magellanic penguins dick then this burrows in the ground. this is where they lay their eggs and raise their young. but the bird's very survival is influenced by human activity rising sea temperatures have changed marine food chains for the penguins it means hunting longer for food which in turn means leaving their young alone for longer and increasing their vulnerability to seagulls and other predators . you know. southern rock her penguins are among the species hardest hit by climate change but it's a very small types of prey such as larvae which are themselves most susceptible to changes in the temperature of the water. so the penguins derive less energy from their food. and that has a long term impact on the population. a lot of a blossom. and tree a ray and her team are installing an automatic monitor. system for the penguins they fitted some of the birds with a special chip a sensor records they movement in order to track general activity across the colony penguins do look helple