Tag: penguins

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.
Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 08:23 UTC
Gentoo penguins are four species, not one, say scientists

By University of Bath – Gentoo penguins should be reclassified as four separate species, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, after analyzing the genetic and physical differences between populations around the southern hemisphere.
Thursday, August 27th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
Parade of penguins waddling to burrows, a lockdown online hit in Australia

A nightly penguin parade live-streamed from a deserted Australian park has become an online lockdown hit, with hundreds of thousands tuning in to watch the cute creatures waddle back to their burrows from the sea.
Friday, July 10th 2020 - 07:14 UTC
Mint launches South Georgia 50-penny coins depicting Chinstrap penguins

Penguins continue to be a popular motif for the Pobjoy Mint, which has just launched a new series of 50-penny coins depicting the flightless birds. The first coin in the 2020 50-penny coin series on behalf of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands features the chinstrap penguin.