Adélie Penguin
Pygoscelis adeliae · Bird
_02.jpg){kind=link}
The most widespread penguin of the Antarctic, common along the whole coast of the continent, a little over 60 cm tall, black above and white below with a white ring round the eye. It is bold and will challenge animals far bigger than itself. In spring the colonies travel together from the pack ice to ice-free beaches and build rough nests of piled stones; for the dark winter they leave the continent. Leopard seals hunt the adults, and skuas and giant petrels take eggs and chicks.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In colonies, by day
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Leaves for winter
Where it lives
Gives
Sources
- Veronica Combos, Pygoscelis adeliae (Adélie penguin). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2008.
- Adélie penguin. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
Open it in Biomes — MGS Toolbox