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A royal penguin on Macquarie Island. This is a list of the bird species recorded on Macquarie Island. The avifauna of Macquarie Island include a total of 74 species, of which 6 have been introduced. Of these, 8 species are globally threatened. The birds of Macquarie Island are, unsurprisingly for an isolated oceanic island, predominantly seabirds.
The royal penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) is a species of penguin, which can be found only on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and adjacent islands. [2] The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the royal penguin as Least Concern. [1] The scientific name commemorates the German zoologist Hermann Schlegel.
A royal penguin rookery on Macquarie Island. The flora has taxonomic affinities with other subantarctic islands, especially those south of New Zealand. Plants rarely grow over 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in height, though the tussock-forming grass Poa foliosa can grow up to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall in sheltered areas.
Mating king penguins at Macquarie Island. The king penguin is able to breed at three years of age, although only a very small minority (5% recorded at Crozet Islands) actually do then; the average age of first breeding is around 5–6 years. [39] King penguins are serially monogamous. They have only one mate each year, and stay faithful to that ...
Joseph Hatch (c. 1837 – 2 September 1928) was a New Zealand politician who is best remembered for the harvesting of penguins and elephant seals for their oil on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island from 1890 to 1919. Around two million penguins were killed over nearly three decades.
Southern rockhopper penguins are split into two subspecies and they are defined by their location of reproduction. The subspecies E. c. filholi (eastern) is known to reproduce in the sub-Antarctic around the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Heard Island, Macquarie Island and Campbell, Auckland and Antipodes Islands.
A royal penguin rookery on Macquarie Island. Similarly, a high proportion of the Lepidoptera and other insects of the islands have evolved into unique endemic species. A number of species have disappeared since the islands were discovered by humans, including the Macquarie Island rail and the Macquarie Island parakeet. [2]
The Macquarie Island Marine Park (previously known as the Macquarie Island Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park surrounding Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific. The marine park covers an area of 475,465 km 2 (183,578 sq mi) and is assigned IUCN category IV.