Tag: penguins

• Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 06:39 UTC

  Falklands: Love Penguins, Gypsy Cove and Yorke Bay guidance

  

  With the upcoming cruise ship season approaching, the Falkland Islands Government Environment Department has been working in partnership with Falkland Islands Tourist Board to create and implement a set of guidelines for operators and tourists visiting the Gypsy Cove and Yorke Bay penguin colonies on cruise ship days.

• Monday, November 13th 2023 - 20:34 UTC

  Gentoo penguins: Dive, forage, love? Fitter penguins dive deeper

  

  Sarah McComb Turbitt, marine biologist from the University of British Columbia illustrates us with a new study published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, from Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé, principal investigator and associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Statistics and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF). The article interesting enough refers Gentoo penguins in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, August 2nd 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  Falklands will be releasing five separate stamp issues on Islands' Penguins

  

  On Friday 3 March 2023, the Stamp Advisory Committee ran a competition inviting members of the public to submit their photographs of penguins in the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, June 26th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Penguin Propulsion: The Physics Behind the World’s Fastest Swimming Birds

  

  A piece from the American Institute of Physics points out that Gentoo penguins are the fastest swimming birds in the world, and that ability comes from their unique and sophisticated wings.

• 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.