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The genus Eudyptula ("good little diver") contains two species of penguin, found in southern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands). They are commonly known as the little penguin, little blue penguin, or, in Australia, fairy penguin. In the language of the Māori people of New Zealand, little penguins are known as ...
Little penguins from New Zealand and Australia were once considered to be the same species, called Eudyptula minor.Analysis of mtDNA in 2002 revealed two clades in Eudyptula: one containing little penguins of New Zealand's North Island, Cook Strait and Chatham Island, as well as the white-flippered penguin, and a second containing little penguins of Australia and the Otago region of New ...
It is commonly known as the fairy penguin, little blue penguin, or blue penguin, owing to its slate-blue plumage and is also known by its Māori name kororā. It is a marine neritic species that dives for food throughout the day and returns to burrows on the shore at dusk, making it the only nocturnal penguin species on land.
Children's book about a housepainter who ends up with a flock of penguins. Evil emperor penguin Evil emperor penguin: Laura Ellen Anderson: Children's book series about an evil emperor penguin and his sidekicks. Whiteblack Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World: H. A. Rey and Margret Rey: Children's book about a travelling penguin Roy and Silo
Barnaby Littlemouse books series (all published by Collins): Footprints in the Snow (1946) The Upside-Down Medicine (1946) Barnaby Camps Out (1947) My Friend Wilberforce (1947) Barnaby in Search of a House (1948) Littlemouse Crusoe (1948) Tippetty's Treasure (1949) Nobody Loves Me. The Story of a Dutch Doll (1950) Many Happy Returns (1951)
The penguin was described by Brian Marples in 1952 from fossil material (a tarsometatarsus) he collected in the Hakataramea Valley, in the Canterbury region of the South Island. The genus name Korora is the Māori term for the extant little penguin. The specific epithet honours Walter Oliver (1883–1957) a former director of the Dominion ...
The book begins when Peter, The Snowy Day's protagonist, wakes up to the season's first snowfall. In his bright red snowsuit, he goes outside and makes footprints and trails through the snow. Next, Peter is too young to join a snowball fight with older kids, so he makes a snowman and snow angels and slides down a hill.
The Snow Child is the debut novel by Eowyn Ivey. It was first published on February 1, 2012 , by Little, Brown and Company . [ 1 ] The novel was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [ 2 ] and was generally well received by critics.