Tag: penguins

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Penguin Awareness Day; Falklands home of five species, King, Magellanic, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Macaroni

  

  Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated on January 20 of every year. Penguins are a group of aquatic and flightless birds. They live in the Southern Hemisphere, and a particular species of the Penguin named Galapagos Penguin is found only in the north equator region called Temperate Zone.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 08:13 UTC

  Hundreds of Magellan penguins washed ashore by a cyclone in southern Brazil

  

  Hundreds of dead Magellan penguins have been gathered at beaches along the coast of Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil, apparently surprised by a subtropical cyclone when their annual migration from the south of the continent, Chile, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands towards warmer waters with more food.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Rescuing juvenile Magellan penguins along the Uruguayan coast

  

  Uruguayan marine life protection organizations have come across an unexpected number of juvenile penguins on their annual transit to less frigid waters in neighboring southern Brazil.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Climate change concern: Gentoo colonies moving further south

  

  By Laura Geggel – Scientists have discovered a previously unknown colony of gentoo penguins in one of the southernmost spots these waddling birds have ever been spotted. The discovery is a cause for concern, according to the researchers, who say that climate change is expanding the range of this temperate, non-ice-loving species of penguin.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Let us celebrate Penguin Awareness Day with Falklands one of the world's great penguin capitals

  

  Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated annually on the 20th of January and this year was on Thursday. The founder of Penguin Awareness Day is unknown, and there is no information on when this day was first celebrated.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Some 6,700 Magellan penguins migrated to Brazil's coastline during winter

  

  Brazil's Beach Monitoring Project, PMP, reports that more than 6,700 penguins have arrived mainly on Santa Catarina and Parana states coast during the migration season this year, which represents a 20% per cent increase in the number of marine birds coming over last year.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 19:00 UTC

  Unauthorized works kill hundreds of penguins in Chubut

  

  A landowner in the town of Punta Tombo in the Argentine Province of Chubut is to be prosecuted under the Law of Cruelk Treatment Against Animals after crushing several penguin nests and electrocuting over a hundred of the birds living at the local natural wildlife reserve some 110 kilometres south from Rawson, the provincial capital.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands Conservation advises on penguins’ 'catastrophic' moulting period

  

  Unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin, it is probably as bad as it sounds. Falklands Conservation recalls that every penguin must moult once a year, normally between December to March, by drastically shedding all their feathers and re-growing new feathers in one go – hence the “catastrophic”.

• Friday, January 15th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Falkland Islands penguins’ catastrophic moulting and how you can help them

  

  Falklands Conservation has illustrated that unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin it is probably as bad as it sounds. Every penguin must moult once a year, normally between December to March, by drastically shedding all their feathers and re-growing new feathers in one go – hence the “catastrophic.”

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Widowed penguins comforting each other, winner of Ocean Photograph awards

  

  The year 2020 has produced many poignant and powerful photographs. But a shot of two widowed penguins appearing to comfort one another in Australia has been picked out as a winner in Oceanographic magazine's Ocean Photograph Awards.