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| Photographed in Tasmania, February 2024 |
1338 NORTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN. Eudyptes moseleyi
AUSTRALIA 813
The northern rockhopper penguin, Moseley's rockhopper penguin, or Moseley's penguin is a penguin species native to the southern Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Breeds on Tristan da Cunha group and Amsterdam Islands. Believed to be between 100,000 and 500,00 birds left. It is very rare for the bird to make landfall on the Australian continent, but in 2006, a northern rockhopper was sighted at Robe, South Australia, and in July 2023 a very underweight northern rockhopper was found at Goolwa beach in South Australia.
