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On the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, these penguins appear to be trying to decide what to do.
King Penguins courting at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia.
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Will this finally be the year that I photograph my slides from 18.5 years ago, when I worked in the Antarctic?
This is a juvenile Magellanic penguin, at Stanley, on the Falkland Islands.
I'm intending to use my macro lens to photograph each slide, although it's tricky getting everything set up (to keep everything aligned, and I probably need a better light source than a white screen on my mobile phone).... and then there's 18.5 years of dust and fluff to clone off each slide!
If anyone has any tips for the set-up, I'd love to hear. I've been Googling, but I can't see anything helpful, so far. Ideally, what would be nice, would be some contraption that would screw onto the end of my macro lens, and hold the slide at the other end, so that the slide is properly aligned with the end of the lens, and the correct distance away, but I can't seem to find such a thing.
Magellanic Penguins - Punta Tombo is South America's largest penguin colony (roughly 500,000). The breeding grounds cover a 2 mile strip in the peninsula which is covered in sand, clay and gravel.
Waddling gentoo penguins on Danco Island, Antarctica, have created this highway between their nesting areas and the sea.
Emperor Penguins at Snow Hill Island, Antarctica.
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This bunch of Gentoo Penguins were marching up the beach towards me in a rather comical fashion. Its scientific name Pygoscelis papua translates as "arse-leg" from Papua New Guinea. This was because of a mix-up in the Type Locality (the place from which the type specimen came) which should have been the Falkland Islands, not Papua. And it was on the Falkland Islands where I took this photograph.
The population appears to be declining, rather rapidly in some populations. Their diet is about 85% krill, 15% fish.
Los pingüinos (Spheniscidae) son una familia de aves, la única del orden Sphenisciformes. Son aves marinas, no voladoras, que se distribuyen casi exclusivamente en el hemisferio sur, exceptuando el pingüino de las islas Galápagos (Spheniscus mendiculus). El nombre del orden proviene del vocablo spheniscus, el cual proviene del griego σφήν (sphen, 'cuña'), y el sufijo diminutivo -iscus, literalmente «cuñita», haciendo referencia a su forma hidrodinámica al nadar. Se reconocen al menos dieciocho especies vivas agrupadas en seis géneros, que se distribuyen desde los ambientes polares hasta los tropicales en el hemisferio sur
Bicheno, Tasmania
I've been rummaging around in old hard drives looking for files that deserve another edit. Topaz AI has done a good job on this one. Much better than the first time around.
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Emperor Penguins at Snow Hill, Antarctica.
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Emperor Penguins in Antarctica.
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Emperor Penguins at Snow Hill, Antarctica.
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This, the smallest Antarctic penguin, gets its name from the two-footed jumps it makes as it moves about its colony.
Rockhopper Penguin on Saunders Island in the Falkland Islands.
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Dellingsdawn sent me this magnificent Antarctica card. It is so beautiful!!!!! One of my all time favourites :)
I've always really loved penguins...not sure why exactly but they just seem so happy and friendly and oblivious of the atrocities of the world. yes, I think I would like to be a penguin....even just for a couple of moments.
Taken looking down on the penguins swimming on the surface of Lisbon aquarium.
The penguins were visible above the surface and underwater where they were like very agile torpedoes! Very impressive indeed!
The King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin at about 11 to 16 kg (24 to 35 lb), second only to the Emperor Penguin. King Penguins eat small fish, mainly lanternfish, and squid and rely less than most Southern Ocean predators on krill and other crustaceans. On foraging trips they repeatedly dive to over 100 metres (330 ft), and have been recorded at depths greater than 300 metres
King Penguin and a Magellanic Penguin in the foreground at Isla Martillo, Patagonia, Argentina.
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Well I'm now back from my trip to Antarctica and this is the first of quite a few penguin shots that I will upload. I was totally enchanted by King Penguins as they seemed to treat humans as if we were penguins. If I sat on the beach they would come up to me and have a look, as this curious individual was doing. This was photographed on the island of South Georgia; a subantarctic island.
King Penguins paddling on the beach at Volunteer Point, Falklands.
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Roughly 4 million penguins existed at the beginning of the 19th century. Of the 1.5-million population of African penguins estimated in 1910, only some 10% remained at the end of the 20th century. African penguin populations, which breed in Namibia and South Africa, have declined by 95 percent since pre-industrial times.[14]
Magellanic penguins marching into the sea at Carcass Island in the Falklands.
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