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These tableaux are a familiar sight in many zoological museums. Penguins are always delightful, even when they're stuffed.
Adelie Penguin at Cape Evans. For licensing see:
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Male African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) (also known as the black-footed penguin or the jackass penguin) in the Cape Fynbos section of Africa Rocks, San Diego Zoo.
Conservation status: endangered
Magellanic Penguins on Leopard beach, Carcass Island, the Falkland Islands.
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Travel to New Zealand's Otago coast in the South Island to observe one of the world's rarest penguins, the hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin).
Yellow-eyed penguin © Chris McClennan
This is a Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica) photographed on Half-Moon Island on the South Shetlands. We only saw small numbers of Chinstraps on South Georgia and they didn't become common until we travelled really far south to Antarctica. Like most penguins, they feed largely on krill, and nest communally in colonies known as rookeries.
"It's your turn to look after the chick!" King Penguins with chick at Volunteer Point.
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Adelie Penguin at McMurdo station in the Ross Sea.
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King penguins at Volunteer Point.
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Nothing like this couple enjoying a little bit of sun to illustrate how I feel on Sundays...
Magellanic penguins at Ushuaia, Argentina.
Happy Sunday!
Penguins marching slowly to their nesting grounds far up the hill, away from the grounds of most of the penguins closer to the ocean. The orange on the rocks is an ancient moss, that is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet, and that along with the penguins survives the extreme cold of Antarctic winter.
Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands.
`March of the Penguins` seemed a little flat, so I pepped it up a little.
Volunteer Point is notable for having about 150 pairs of king penguins that breed there, at the most northerly part of their range, and hence the most accessible to tourists. King penguins were once nearly extinct in the Falklands but thanks to new conversion efforts they are now beginning to thrive.
This couple spent a lot of time nuzzling and showing what looked like affection to each other. Check out the rest of the sequence. You usually associate penguins with icebergs, glaciers and snow and Antarctica. But South Africa boasts its own unique penguin colony at Boulders Bay in the West Cape, part of Table Mountain National Park. The penguins put on quite a show for visitors, as they are accustomed to people. The colony is located adjacent to a residential neighborhood.
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. The number of penguin species is debated. Depending on which authority is followed, penguin biodiversity varies between 17 and 20 living species, all in the subfamily Spheniscinae. Some sources consider the White-flippered Penguin a separate Eudyptula species, while others treat it as a subspecies of the Little Penguin;the actual situation seems to be more complicated. Similarly, it is still unclear whether the Royal Penguin is merely a color morph of the Macaroni penguin. Also eligible to be a separate species is the Northern population of Rockhopper penguins.[2] Although all penguin species are native to the southern hemisphere, they are not, contrary to popular belief, found only in cold climates, such as Antarctica. In fact, only a few species of penguin actually live so far south. At least 10[verification needed] species live in the temperate zone: one; the Galápagos Penguin; lives as far north as the Galápagos Islands.
Wikipedia, Penguin, 2008
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Black and white and cute all over. While the African penguin may not be found in freezing temperatures, they are covered in an array of black, white, and gray dense, waterproof feathers that keep them dry and warm in the cold waters off the African coast. They also have a number of dot-like markings flecked across their white chests. These flecks help to individualize each penguin, as each penguin's feather pattern is as individual as a human's fingerprints. The animal has a distinct, sharply pointed beak and black feet. The African penguin is one of the smallest species. Males are generally slightly larger than their female counterparts.