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This document contains a collection of pictures of Adélie penguins in Antarctica along with captions describing the scenes. The pictures show penguins in their natural habitat on ice floes, in colonies, hunting for food, caring for young, and interacting with other wildlife. The document encourages visiting the website www.penguinscience.com for more information and photos of Adélie penguins.
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- 1. Fun Penguin Pictures Jean Pennycook www.penguinscience.com
- 2. These slides are pictures of penguins being penguins and each one has it’s own story. All pictures are Adélie Penguins and were taken in the Ross Sea colonies of Antarctica. For more pictures or information on Adélie Penguins go to our website: www.penguinscience.com
- 3. An aerial view of the Adélie Penguin breeding colony at Cape Royds, Antarctica.
- 4. At home on an ice floe
- 5. Th ese are very inquisitive bir ds, and want to explore any new object (even me) that comes into the colony.
- 6. Penguins use their mouth to carry rocks back to the nest.
- 7. Dry head Wet head
- 8. Getting into the water is always dangerous. Leopard seals hide under the ice and wait for the penguins to jump in. There is safety in numbers so usually they go in groups.
- 9. To get on the ice, penguins have to swim fast and ‘fly’ out of the water. This ice was only 3 ft high and the penguin made the leap easily. We have seen them leap as high as 6 ft. No they don’t always make it, sometimes they hit the ledge and fall back in the water.
- 10. Sometimes white feathers show up in the oddest places.
- 11. Adélie Penguins aren’t always black and white. We occasionally see albino chicks. However, I have never seen an adult albino.
- 12. An albino chick newly hatched.
- 13. Another color variation of Adélie Penguin. We call this one Blondie.
- 14. Dark brown color variation.
- 15. This one we call salt and pepper.
- 16. A breeding pair of South Polar Skuas who are tag-teaming an isolated Adélie nest. One Skua will distract the penguin, the other will snatch the egg. In this case they were successful.
- 17. Occasionally the tag-teaming is reversed. In this case the penguins scared the Skua off it’s nest and then kept it off until another Skua came and stole the egg. Penguins do not eat the eggs of other birds, but we were happy to see this small pay-back event.
- 18. An Adélie Penguin chick just about as big as they get. The next step for this chick is to molt to it’s adult plumage.
- 19. A chick in the process of molting to the adult plumage.
- 20. Every year adult penguins molt, loosing their old feathers and growing new ones. This adult Adélie Penguin is beginning the process.
- 21. To get between ice floes, Adélie penguins sometimes leap. Usually they make it, but we have watched many attempts with the bird landing in the water.
- 22. A 3 egg nest. Adélie Penguins lay only 2, one must have rolled in from another nest. None of these eggs hatched as the adult could not keep them all warm at the same time.
- 23. The egg froze to the feathers of this bird. It will not hatch as it is exposed to the cold air. A few minutes after the picture was taken the penguin laid down on the rocks and the egg broke.
- 24. The chick is just beginning to crack the shell. We call this peeping.
- 25. A chick just moments after breaking the shell.
- 26. It doesn’t take long and the chick is a fuzzy ball of warm downy feathers.
- 27. First meal.
- 28. Penguin tracks in the snow.
- 29. Penguin tracks all over the place. The wide tracks are penguins who are sliding on their bellies. Called tobogganing, it takes less energy and they can go faster than walking.
- 30. Stro ng penguin feet, go od for climbing on rocks and walking on ice.
- 31. Adélie Penguin eggs are laid about 2 days apart. This chick is 2 weeks old and the second egg is still in the nest, but will not hatch.
- 32. When storms hit, the guarding adult will turn it’s back to the wind protecting the chick from the cold and snow.
- 33. Adult penguins create a warm dry place for the chicks during a storm.
- 34. Dirty, hungry penguins leaving the colony headed to the ocean for food. They have been sitting on the nest for a long time. Clean penguins full of food returning to the colony to relieve their mates.
- 35. A crack opened up near the breeding colony which made finding food a lot easier for these penguins.
- 36. Although they can hold their breath for several minutes, Adélie Penguins need to come up for air. Notice in this picture they come out of the water when they swim to breath through their mouths.
- 37. If you just stand still penguins will come up to you, they are very curious.
- 38. Yes, these penguins sleep with their eyes closed.
- 39. Adélie Penguins love the ice.
- 40. Other Powerpoint presentations for you classroom: Introduction to the Polar regions, Why is Antarctica so cold? Introduction to Adélie Penguins, Adélie Penguins march into the classroom Penguin Adaptations, This is a harsh continent Adélie Penguin Behavior, Good manners are always in style Penguin Predation and Competition, Life is tough for an Adélie Penguin Adélie Penguins Cope with Global Climate Change Did You Know, How researchers know what they know Penguin Quandaries, Can you answer these mysteries Fun pictures about Adélie Penguins Go to www.penguinscience.com The education page.
Editor's Notes
- All the rocks in this area are black volcanic rocks, the brown is created by years of penguin guano build up and indicates where the nests are. Satellites are picking up guano signals around Antarctica showing where colonies are located. Recently, new colonies have been discovered this way. The fence and yellow tent house our weighbridge. See the powerpoint “How researchers know what they know’ to learn more about it.
- Adélie Penguins live in areas where the ocean has persistent ice cover. This only occurs in the ocean surrounding Antarctica. As song birds live in trees, these birds live on ice floes. If the ice disappears, these penguins will have to move.
- The erect feathers on the back of the bird’s head show a slight warning and irritation to my presence.
- These rocks are used to build the nest, protecting the egg from rolling away and any snow melt which occurs. In this colony there are plenty of rocks, but birds continually steal from each others nests, a source of constant entertainment for us.
- At the base of their tail is an oil gland. These birds spend a great deal of time preening, keeping their feathers well oiled and fluffed. The feathers are very dense to keep the birds bodies warm and dry
- The group will stand on the ice ledge for a long time waiting for the right time to jump in. I have watched this event hundreds of times and wondered what triggers them to finally go. It has been noticed that sometimes the first one is pushed from behind which then causes the rest to follow.
- Sometimes they land on their feet, but more often they land on their bellies and scoot along for a bit before standing up and continuing the journey. Although a beautiful jump, this bird landed on it’s belly.
- This nest was not in a good location. The adults built it too far away from the other penguins for help in fending off the Skuas. First one egg then the other was taken. The adult stayed near the nest for a couple of days then left.
- The Skua built this nest about 10 yds from a breeding group of penguins at Cape Royds. Most of the time the Skuas nests are a long way from the penguin groups, and the penguins don’t go near them. Once this Skua was bullied off the nest, the penguins would not let her back. She tried to return from several angles, but the penguin stood it’s ground. About 10 min later another Skua swooped in and took the egg, and that was the end of this Skua nest for the year.
- Chicks multiply their birth weight by 30 in fifty days. That is the same as a 7 lb baby weighing 210 lbs in a month and a half. It takes about 60 lbs of food to raise a chick to this size.
- This process takes several days and frequently the parents are gone by this time. The chick is on it’s own and must find it’s way to the ocean and learn to swim by itself. Notice the white chin which indicates a yearly. After the end of one year it will molt again and grow the black chin of an adult.
- Both ice floes are moving, up and down and back and forth. Gauging the jump takes time, skill and luck.
- Parents frequently turn the eggs and rotate their position in the brood patch and when the adults exchange nesting positions, eggs get moved around. In this story, one egg was always out of the brood patch, but it was not the same egg, so each egg at one time or another became cold. As a result none of them hatched.
- This part of hatching can take a few minutes or several hours.
- The chick is wet and will get cold very quickly if the mother does not hold it against her warm body. Notice the parent is holding the egg on it’s feet.
- It looks as if the older chick is trying to cuddle it’s siblings egg, however there is no evidence to suggest penguins have any feelings for their nest mates. Sometimes it is hard not to apply human thoughts and actions to animals, but science works on data driven evidence only. The egg is partially cracked. Maybe the chick could not break the egg and died or maybe died first then the egg cracked on the rocks, we do not know.
- When adults are on eggs they face into the wind, just the opposite of here. Can you think why? Ans: facing into the wind is better because it flows over the bird in the direction of the feathers, similar to the swimming position of the bird.
- In a penguin colony it is easy to tell who is coming in and who is going out.
- The crack opened up 2 miles from the breeding colony and saved the penguins 15 miles of walking over ice to get to the ocean for food.
- Usually we see the birds put their heads under their wings to sleep if they are standing up. This was a rare picture.