Penguin · Flightless southern divers that turned wings into flippers and ice edges into commute routes.
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Ian Duffy from UK · CC BY 2.0
Deepest diver; midwinter male incubation.
Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri, Antarctica) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sardine competitor and oil-spill patient.
African penguin (EN coastal, South Africa / Namibia) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Herbert Ponting · Public domain
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) — emperor eggs in July dark.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886–1959, United Kingdom) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Jacquet documentary that minted the huddle as pop science.
March of the Penguins (2005, France / Antarctica) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Mig Gilbert from Brighton · CC BY-SA 2.0
Oil and chick-bolstering rehab on the Benguela coast.
SANCCOB (1968–, South Africa) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Phillip Island parade — tourism that funds fox control.
Little penguin (Eudyptula, Australia / NZ) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
A loose noose · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fastest underwater burst among common species; growing at some sites.
Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua, Subantarctic) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 3.0
Equatorial breeding tied to Cromwell Current cool water.
Galápagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus, Ecuador) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Stats are relative 0–100 marks within this species, for comparison only.
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CCAMLR allocations and penguin GPS tracks do not always share a grid. The argument is spatial, not only tonnage.
March of the Penguins sold pair-bond morals. Field papers describe energy budgets and ice distance.
Apex diurnal raptors whose stoops, territories and national emblems stretch from taiga cliffs to tropical canopy.
Overall 75 🦉Nocturnal raptors whose facial discs, silent flight and asymmetric ears turn darkness into a hunting map.
Overall 72 🐦New World nectar specialists that hover on figure-eight wings and migrate on a few grams of fat.
Overall 63 🦩Long-legged filter feeders whose bent bills and carotenoid diets turn alkaline lakes into pink cities.
Overall 52 🦜Zygodactyl hookbills whose social brains, mimicry and nest-cavity needs collide with the cage trade.
Overall 58 🪽Dynamic-soaring ocean birds whose metres-long wings and baited longlines now share the same latitudes.
Overall 58 🦢Tall wetland dancers whose red-crowned East Asian population is the atlas type and a conservation bottleneck.
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