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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.
Taken on Carcass Island, Falklands during our cruise to the Falklands Islands, South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula. They nest in burrows and were generally not near the water unless they wandered off. They showed no fear of people and one can only hope that these areas remain pristine. We were told that we could not get too close to the penguins but they were free to wander anywhere. Sometimes they did come close, but they had the right-of-way!
There is some very interesting information in the site below.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_penguin
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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.
This beautiful king penguin is having a little nap, despite the frenzy of people milling about the Grytviken area.
As I mentioned in a previous post, there were not many penguins at this location. They were not nesting, so it is likely the group are all younger or non-mating for some other reason. Many were moulting, but this individual didn't show evidence of that.
For a while after whalers stopped using these penguins as a fuel source, their numbers increased quite a bit. They are in decline again, possibly for a few reasons. One may be climate change affecting food availability. Another is the commercial krill harvest. Krill makes up a large portion of the food for many fish species, penguins, and whales, but krill are being scooped up by the billions of tons for creating supplemental oils (which really is not needed by anyone) and food meal for use on fish farms. I'm guessing there is money involved in there somewhere.
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from above at Boulders Beach, South Africa
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Emperor Penguins at Snow Hill, Antarctica.
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Penguin found along the shoreline of Bartholome' island.
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.
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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.
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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All penguins have a white belly and a dark (mostly black) back. Penguins cannot fly, but they can swim very well. They have good hearing and can see underwater. The white and black colors are for camouflage (to help them hide) when they swim. So, when a predator looking from underwater sees the white belly and wings of the penguin, they can not see it well with the light coming from above. Also, from above, the penguin's black backs can not be seen well in the dark water. The biggest penguins may stand nearly 4 feet tall and can weigh almost 100 pounds. The smallest kinds are only about one foot tall. Penguins also have a thick layer of blubber that helps them be warm, and their feathers are very tightly packed to make another cover. They also have a layer of woolly down under the feathers, that are coated with a type of oil that makes them waterproof.
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.
Seen at The Sea Life Centre, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
The Humboldt Penguin is only found along The Pacific Coasts of Chile and Peru. The present population is around only 10-12000 breading pairs and unless fully protected they face extinction within a few decades.
All the penguins at Sea Life Centres are captive bred and are breading.
Unfortunately, Humboldt Penguins moult annually, it takes about a month. We picked the wrong time to see them at their best
This penguin looked very smart in his tuxedo.
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Firstly, what surprised me was that there are penguins in Africa. I wasn't aware.
Secondly, it is also widely known as the "jackass" penguin for its donkey-like bray.
King Penguins paddling on the beach at Volunteer Point, Falklands.
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Penguins communicate through vocalizations and physical displays, using these behaviors to establish nesting territories, share mating and nesting roles, recognize partners and chicks, and defend against intruders. Is this a threat call regarding nesting territories?
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Magellanic penguins marching into the sea at Carcass Island in the Falklands.
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The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as the jackass penguin and black-footed penguin, is a species of penguin, confined to southern African waters. It is also widely known as the "jackass" penguin for its loud, donkey-like bray,[2] although several related species of South American penguins produce the same sound. Like all extant penguins it is flightless, with a streamlined body, and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat. Adults weigh on average 2.2–3.5 kg (4.9–7.7 lb) and are 60–70 cm (24–28 in) tall. It has distinctive pink patches of skin above the eyes and a black facial mask; the body upperparts are black and sharply delineated from the white underparts, which are spotted and marked with a black band. The pink gland above their eyes helps them to cope with changing temperatures. When the temperature gets hotter, the body of the African penguin sends more blood to these glands to be cooled by the air surrounding it. This then causes the gland to turn a darker shade of pink.[3]
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