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Montevideo, November 14th 2024 - 05:06 UTC

Tag: Magellanic penguins

  • Friday, April 26th 2019 - 06:16 UTC

    Meet the Falkland Islands penguins

    King Penguins at Volunteer Point - Falkland Islands (Pic D.Pettersson)

    By Chloe May - On 25 April every year, people around the world celebrate World Penguin Day - a day to raise awareness of the plight these flightless birds are currently facing. This takes place at the same time as the annual northern migration of Antarctica’s Adelie penguins and was created as a way for researchers at an American research centre on Ross Island to pass time and raise awareness.

  • Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

    Magellanic penguins: among the most faithful couples in animal kingdom

    Published in the journal Current Biology, it sheds fresh light on the extraordinary lifestyle of the Magellanic penguins, commonly found around the Falkland Islands

    Mark Waghorn, writing for The London Economic, and based on a paper on Magellanic penguins published in the January edition of Current Biology, gives us access to some fascinating facts about this breed which is most common along the Atlantic Patagonia coast and the Falkland Islands.