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Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) on Macquarie Island (frontal shot)
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Royal penguin on Macquarie Island (profile/side shot)
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Royal penguins on Macquarie Island
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Macquarie Island - Royal penguin rookery
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ROYAL PENGUIN FACTS |
Description
The Royal Penguin is a crested penguin with white face, black head cap, black back and wings and white throat and underside. It has long yellow crest that hangs downwards. The bill is orange brown with a patch of bare skin at the base of the bill. Immature birds are greyish with small crest. Royal Penguins are endemic to Macquarie Island and the nearby Bishop and Clerk Islets.
Size
70 cm
Habitat
open ocean, nests on beaches or slopes covered with vegetation
Food
krill, fish, squid
Breeding
breeds in large colonies. The nest is a scrape in the ground
Range
It breeds on Macquarie Island where there are large colonies. it is a rare vagrant to south east mainland Australia and has been sighted on Tasmania
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Sphenisciformes | | Family: | Spheniscidae | | Genus: | Eudyptes | | Species: | schlegeli | | Common Name: | Royal Penguin |
Relatives in same Genus
Rockhopper Penguin (E. chrysocome)
Macaroni Penguin (E. chrysolophus)
Fiordland Penguin (E. pachyrhynchus)
Snares Penguin (E. robustus)
Erect-crested Penguin (E. sclateri)
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