Penguins

Achieve Charter School kindergartners showed off their penguins Thursday afternoon during their annual "Penguin Paradise," the culmination of a month-long research project. Kindergarten teacher Aimee Wright said the students have been learning about different animal species. To take their curriculum a step further, they study the 17 different penguin species, she said.  

The blue penguins at the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony quarry site, along with resident marine biologist Philippa Agnew, are about to be part of a three-year research project which could help predict future population trends of the species. To monitor sea journies to feed, penguins will be fitted with a GPS device or time-depth recorders that will provide data for a research project Ms Agnew is undertaking. The research is part of the expanded programme at the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony, and will result  

Only two affected birds were seen amongst the many thousands at St Andrews Bay, but reports have been received of others at the other main colony sites such as Salisbury Plain and Gold Harbour, and afflicted birds have been seen locally in Cumberland Bay. The affected birds have protruding and obvious lesions. Vets in the Falkland Islands have seen photographs of affected birds and think it may be an outbreak of avian pox, but no samples have yet been taken to confirm the identity of the disease. Pengui  

National Geographic Traveler contributor Andrew Evans recently spotted and filmed an all-black king penguin—a very rare mutant—on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. © 2010 National Geographic; video: This all black-feathered king penguin could be 'one in a zillion.' The video was recorded on the Sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia by National Geographic Traveler Magazine contributor editor Andrew Evans on his bus2Antarctica expedition.  

PROBLEMS with the environment have been addressed in a play at a Royston school. Year two pupils at St Mary's primary school performed "Eddie the Penguin saves the world" to an audience of over 50 visitors, including parents and local MP Oliver Heald. The children had been rehearsing the play for three weeks.  

Adam Foster spotted the Humboldt penguins as they stood grooming one another. As he approached to the male and female adjusted one another's feathers before lining up for a picture. Mr Foster, a web developer from Manchester, visited Chester Zoo last month.

When I looked back at the pictures it was hilarious, it looked just like a human couple adjusting themselves for a photograph.   -Adam Foster

 

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Shifting sea ice around Antarctica is already disrupting penguin colonies as the world's climate warms, according to a new report by a team of polar scientists. The researchers looked at the complex relationship between emperor and Adelie penguins and their changing habitats and studied how a projected temperature increase in coming decades of 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 Fahrenheit, might affect the way the animals build nests, find food and raise their young. Emperor penguins — the largest of all the a  

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