Penguin club!
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They're either greeting each other or are madly in love. The penguins are about the same size, so it can't be a mother feeding her chick. But maybe. Taken in a Colorado Nature Park enclosure.
King Penguins courting at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia.
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King Penguin on the beach at Grytviken, 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.
I had never heard of a bird commonly called the "Jackass Penguin" (Spheniscus demersus). More politely-named the "African Penguin", it got the Jackass nickname because of its bray-like call. Today, it is found in an ever-dwindling population in southern African waters. In the first estimates in 1910, there were about 1.5 million of them; then in 2000 an estimated 200,000; and, by the year 2010 only 55,000 were believed to exist. They are considered an "endangered" species.
The picture shows a peculiar pink patch above the eye. On warm days, the penguin's blood level increases in this gland causing a darker pink color. The increased blood near the skin surface allows cooling somewhat. So, by looking at this picture, you can deduce that it was taken on a warm, sunny autumn day.
Seen at the Denver Zoo, Colorado.
King Penguin pairs tend to emulate each others behaviour sometimes resulting in symmetrical poses like this.
I sat down on the beach at St Andrews on South Georgia to admire the view, and I was immediately surrounded by curious King Penguins. They posed beautifully against the mountain backdrop and showed no fear or concern whatsoever about my presence. They are the second largest penguin after Emperor, and stand 70-100cm tall, which put them at about my eye level while I was sitting. Both sexes are alike so I'm not sure what sex these are.
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.
I saw many Penguin Colonies… and it was so interesting to watch how they lived in such close quarters. They really are amazing animals...
Dellingsdawn sent me this magnificent Antarctica card. It is so beautiful!!!!! One of my all time favourites :)
Rockhopper Penguin on Saunders Island in the Falkland Islands.
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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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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.
This penguin looked very smart in his tuxedo.
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King penguins standing beside a sheltered lagoon in the Falkland Islands. The moody evening sky created an amazing atmosphere.
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King Penguins paddling on the beach at Volunteer Point, Falklands.
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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]
King Penguins at Volunteer point.
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2004-03 Cape TownR 007
- Colony of over 3000 penguins at Boulder's Beach, South Africa, for more information see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulders_Beach