Showing posts with label Megadyptes antipodes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Megadyptes antipodes. Show all posts

Saturday, April 6, 2019

YELLOW-EYED PENGUIN

Photographed at Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand, April, 2019

1279                   YELLOW-EYED PENGUIN                Megadyptes antipodes 

NEW ZEALAND                90

Known by the Maori name of Hoiho. Uncommon endemic. About 5000 birds breed and moult around southeastern South Island, Foreaux Strait, Stewart, Codfish, Campbell and Auckland islands. Mainly sedentary, but some disperse northwards to Cook Strait.