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Erect-crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) colony, Anchorage Bay, Antipodes Island, New Zealand
Image by LawrieM - License: Public Domain. (view image details)
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Erect-crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) colony, Anchorage Bay, Antipodes Island, New Zealand.
Image by LawrieM - License: Public Domain. (view image details)
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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Erect-crested Penguin is a crested penguin with black face, black throat, black back and wings and white underside. As its name indicates, it has a "sticking up" spiky yellow crest. The bill is dark orange with a patch of bare skin at the base of the bill. Immature birds are greyish with small crest.
Size
70 cm
Habitat
open ocean, rocky coastland
Food
krill, fish, squid
Breeding
nest in large colonies on rocky terrain
Range
It breeds on islands off New Zealand. It is a vagrant to Australia.
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: | sclateri | | Common Name: | Erect-crested Penguin |
Relatives in same Genus
Rockhopper Penguin (E. chrysocome)
Macaroni Penguin (E. chrysolophus)
Fiordland Penguin (E. pachyrhynchus)
Snares Penguin (E. robustus)
Royal Penguin (E. schlegeli)
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