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The Fiordland penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), also known as the Fiordland crested penguin (in Māori, tawaki or pokotiwha), is a crested penguin species endemic to New Zealand. It currently breeds along the south-western coasts of New Zealand 's South Island as well as on Stewart Island/Rakiura and its outlying islands. [ 2 ]
The International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) recognises 18 species of penguins in six genera. This list does not include hybrid species, extinct prehistoric species, or putative species not yet accepted by the IOU. Family Spheniscidae. Genus Aptenodytes: two species; Genus Pygoscelis: three species; Genus Eudyptula: one species
Eudyptes is a genus of penguins whose members are collectively called crested penguins. [2] The exact number of species in the genus varies between four and seven depending on the authority, and a Chatham Islands species became extinct in recent centuries. All are black and white penguins with yellow crests, red bills and eyes, and are found on ...
A penguin who swam an impressive 1,553 miles (2,500 kilometers) from its home in New Zealand to Australia was released back into the wild after an extensive rest at the Melbourne Zoo.According to ...
Penguins for the most part breed in large colonies, the exceptions being the yellow-eyed and Fiordland species; these colonies may range in size from as few as 100 pairs for gentoo penguins to several hundred thousand in the case of king, macaroni and chinstrap penguins. [60]
Ridgen's penguin (Aptenodytes ridgeni), an extinct species known from fossil bones of Early or Late Pliocene age. Combined morphological and molecular data [ 4 ] have shown the genus Aptenodytes to be basal to all other living penguins, that is, the genus split off from a branch which led to all other species.
Saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Homotherium lived across the globe during the Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) and early Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) epochs ...
Bones of crested penguins (genus Eudyptes) have been recorded from subfossil deposits on main Chatham Island for years. They had been identified as Fiordland or erect-crested penguins, but Tennyson and Millener noted in 1994 they differed from both those species, and probably represented a species of crested penguin endemic to the Chatham Islands. [4]