Birds of the World

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Genus: Eudyptes (7 species)


Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome) Vulnerable Range: AO, SA: s Chile is. and Cape Horn to Falkland Is., subantarctic Indian Ocean and New Zealand is. West Point Island, Falkland Islands
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) Vulnerable Range: SO: subantarctic islands of w South Atlantic to e South Indian Ocean: Antarctic Pen. and Falkland Is. to Kerguelen and Heard is.
Photograph by Pablo Caceres Contreras Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.


Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) Endangered Range: AO, IO: Tristan da Cunha group including Gough (sc South Atlantic Ocean), St. Paul and Amsterdam is. (sc Indian Ocean) Boston Aquarium, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Larger than the other Rockhopper penguins, and with longer crest feathers. Best identified by location, as ranges don't overlap.


Fiordland Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) Near Threatened Range: AU: sw South, w, s Stewart, and satellites (New Zealand) Stewart Island, New Zealand
Photograph by Francesco Veronesi Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Snares Penguin (Eudyptes robustus) Vulnerable Range: AU: Snares I. (s of South I., New Zealand) The Snares, New Zealand
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) Range: AU: subantarctic islands of w South Pacific: Macquarie and nearby Bishop and Clerk is. (far se of Australia) Macquarie Island, Australia
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Erect-crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) Endangered Range: AU: Bounty (e of Stewart I.) and Antipodes is. (se of Stewart I.; New Zealand) Antipodes Island, New Zealand
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.

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