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| Molting king penguin. Image ID: 24450 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguin colony. Over 100,000 pairs of king penguins nest at Salisbury Plain, laying eggs in December and February, then alternating roles between foraging for food and caring for the egg or chick. Image ID: 24451 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguins at Salisbury Plain. Silver and black penguins are adults, while brown penguins are 'oakum boys', juveniles named for their distinctive fluffy plumage that will soon molt and taken on adult coloration. Image ID: 24452 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island |
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| King penguin colony. Over 100,000 pairs of king penguins nest at Salisbury Plain, laying eggs in December and February, then alternating roles between foraging for food and caring for the egg or chick. Image ID: 24453 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguin colony. Over 100,000 pairs of king penguins nest at Salisbury Plain, laying eggs in December and February, then alternating roles between foraging for food and caring for the egg or chick. Image ID: 24454 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguins at Salisbury Plain. Silver and black penguins are adults, while brown penguins are 'oakum boys', juveniles named for their distinctive fluffy plumage that will soon molt and taken on adult coloration. Image ID: 24457 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island |
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| King penguin colony at Salisbury Plain, Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island. Over 100,000 pairs of king penguins nest here, laying eggs in December and February, then alternating roles between foraging for food and caring for the egg or chick. Image ID: 24458 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguin colony at Salisbury Plain, Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island. Over 100,000 pairs of king penguins nest here, laying eggs in December and February, then alternating roles between foraging for food and caring for the egg or chick. Image ID: 24459 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | Shackleton Memorial Cross, with mountains of South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24466 Location: Grytviken, South Georgia Island |
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| Oakum boys, juvenile king penguins at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island. Named 'oakum boys' by sailors for the resemblance of their brown fluffy plumage to the color of oakum used to caulk timbers on sailing ships, these year-old penguins will soon shed their fluffy brown plumage and adopt the colors of an adult. Image ID: 24534 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguin, showing ornate and distinctive neck, breast and head plumage and orange beak. Image ID: 24600 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island | Macaroni penguin, amid tall tussock grass, Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24683 Species: Macaroni penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus Location: Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island |
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| Macaroni penguin, amid tall tussock grass, Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24710 Species: Macaroni penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus Location: Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island | Macaroni penguin, amid tall tussock grass, Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24711 Species: Macaroni penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus Location: Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island | M/V Polar Star at anchor in a snowstorm. Image ID: 24712 Location: Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island |
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| Macaroni penguin, amid tall tussock grass, Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24713 Species: Macaroni penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus Location: Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island | Drygalski Fjord, packed with brash ice which has broken away from the glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24715 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | Drygalski Fjord, packed with brash ice which has broken away from the glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24716 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island |
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| Icebreaker M/V Polar Star approaches Elsehul harbor on South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24323 Location: South Georgia Island | Antarctic fur seal carcass, lying on pebble beach. Dead fur seals are quickly scavenged by giant petrels, leaving the pelt and skeleton of the dead fur seal. Image ID: 24353 Species: Antarctic Fur Seal, Arctocephalus gazella Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island | King penguin colony. Over 100,000 pairs of king penguins nest at Salisbury Plain, laying eggs in December and February, then alternating roles between foraging for food and caring for the egg or chick. Image ID: 24434 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island |
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| King penguins at Salisbury Plain. Image ID: 24435 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguin colony, over 100,000 nesting pairs, viewed from above. The brown patches are groups of 'oakum boys', juveniles in distinctive brown plumage. Salisbury Plain, Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24436 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | The South Georgia Pintail duck, also known as the South Georgian Teal, is endemic to South Georgia Island and is a vagrant to the South Sandwich Islands. The South Georgia Pintail feeds on a variety of marine and freshwater vegetation, including algae, as well as upon invertebrates. Image ID: 24462 Species: South Georgia Pintail, Anas georgica georgica Location: Grytviken, South Georgia Island |
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| King penguins, showing ornate and distinctive neck, breast and head plumage and orange beak. Image ID: 24463 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Grytviken, South Georgia Island | Gentoo penguin stealing nesting material, moving it from one nest to another. Image ID: 24703 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Godthul, South Georgia Island | Gentoo penguin walking through tall grass. Image ID: 24718 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Godthul, South Georgia Island |
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| Gentoo penguins, calling, heads raised. Image ID: 24720 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Godthul, South Georgia Island | Gentoo penguin stealing nesting material, moving it from one nest (hidden behind the clump on the left) to its nest on the right. Snow falling. Image ID: 24721 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Godthul, South Georgia Island | Gentoo penguin, walking through tall grass, snow falling. Image ID: 24722 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Godthul, South Georgia Island |
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