The southern Rockhopper penguin has shorter feathers around its head. The coins were part of a set that featured a King, Gentoo, Magellanic and Rockhopper penguins. But a fault in the design on ...

A rookery of Southern rockhopper penguins nests between a rocky slope and a tussac grassland. The penguins bring in nutrients from the ocean directly to the grasses at the Kidney Island National ...

But then in 2006, the rockhopper penguin began to be recognised as two different species, the southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) and the northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi).

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

Soon after, the African penguin was listed as endangered and the New Zealand-Australia populations of the southern rockhopper penguin were listed as threatened. After another Center petition, in 2014 ...

The southern rockhopper subspecies breeds on the Falkland Islands and in southern Chile and southern Argentina. The eastern rockhopper penguin breeds on Prince Edward Island and the Marion Islands in ...

Two new animals are making a splash at Shedd Aquarium. Pico and Douglas are rockhopper penguins that hatched at Shedd ...

Perhaps that can be excused as Brown, a Detroit Zoo penguin keeper ... which include five species - Southern rockhopper, Macaroni, King, Gentoo and Chinstrap - several of whom periodically ...

Shedd Aquarium has named its two newest rockhopper penguins, Pico and Douglas, nods to their South American roots and the Falkland Islands’ penguin population, respectively.

Falkland Islands are nesting sites for five of the 18 species of penguin - King, Gentoo, Southern Rockhopper, Magellanic and Macaroni April 25 is World Penguin Day, from the impressive 1.2m tall ...

Perhaps that can be excused as Brown, a Detroit Zoo penguin keeper, and Van Dam ... Brown smiled as she walked among the bevy of birds, which include five species - Southern rockhopper, Macaroni, King ...