Heavy storm and the consequences 
Source: http://ivs.bkg.bund.de/vlbi/ohiggins/
The hurricane of the Verge. Days has mercilessly raged among the breeding pairs: many nests were abandoned, it is not expected that here again comes to a successful second breeding attempt this season. The more drastic fall from the balance sheet when you consider that it probably never been so many nests as this year. give an idea of
The data of the German station, as this highly destructive weather event was: 10 in total hours was the average wind speed over 150 km / h, about 2 hours even in the range of 200 km / h. Only the nest sites in some wind protection in combination with the abysmal driving hatching / survival will of individual breeding birds had stock. I feel that the most severe consequences of a hurricane for the Penguins since the camera transmission. In the front of the screen probably only 5 of about 18 former nest sites the hurricane have survived more or less harmless. The couple, who have lost their eggs to be back in the early days of course, to their nest - but then just sitting on a stone, dead nothingness. In some cases it could be a Nachgelege, as the breeding season had begun for some of the new couples only.
This event shows once again, which is incredible advantage of the hatchery on the shoulder of the concrete foundation. The probability of successful breeding by the wind shadow is particularly high here!
Initial results: so far it is hard to miss up to date, these are marked nest sites have been abandoned in the hurricane (over 60% of all nests)
