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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.
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 ...
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
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
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 ...
Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, 1942; Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, 1982; Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918–1960) Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 1984; The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, 1991; Penguin Modern Poets, 1960s and 1970s; Penguin poetry anthologies; The Percy Folio, 17th century; Poem and Poet [1]
Simon Armitage was commissioned by the Ilkley Literature Festival in 2010 to write a set of site-specific poems, and the trail was created in 2012. Armitage wrote six poems on the theme of water in various forms: Beck, Dew, Mist, Puddle, Rain and Snow. These were carved by stone artist Pip Hall onto stones in the area of the Pennine watershed ...