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| Adelie penguins leaping into the ocean from an iceberg. Image ID: 25005 Species: Adelie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Two Adelie penguins, holding their wings out, standing on an iceberg. Image ID: 25007 Species: Adelie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae Location: Paulet Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Galapagos penguin, underwater, swimming. Bartolome Island. Image ID: 16234 Species: Galapagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus Location: Bartolome Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| King penguin, showing ornate and distinctive neck, breast and head plumage and orange beak. Image ID: 24581 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island | Adelie penguin on an iceberg. Image ID: 25006 Species: Adelie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Galapagos penguin at sunset. Image ID: 02267 Species: Galapagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus Location: Bartolome Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Gentoo penguin coming ashore, after foraging at sea, walking through ocean water as it wades onto a sand beach. Adult gentoo penguins grow to be 30" and 19lb in size. They feed on fish and crustaceans. Gentoo penguins reside in colonies well inland from the ocean, often formed of a circular collection of stones gathered by the penguins. Image ID: 23828 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Magellanic penguins, coming ashore on a sandy beach. Magellanic penguins can grow to 30" tall, 14 lbs and live over 25 years. They feed in the water, preying on cuttlefish, sardines, squid, krill, and other crustaceans. Image ID: 23924 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguins coming ashore, after foraging at sea, walking through ocean water as it wades onto a sand beach. Adult gentoo penguins grow to be 30" and 19lb in size. They feed on fish and crustaceans. Gentoo penguins reside in colonies well inland from the ocean, often formed of a circular collection of stones gathered by the penguins. Image ID: 23833 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Adelie penguin colony, panoramic photograph. Image ID: 26313 Species: Adelie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae Location: Devil Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica Pano dimensions: 3564 x 28099 | ||
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| Rockhopper penguin portrait, showing the yellowish plume feathers that extend behind its red eye in adults. The western rockhopper penguin stands about 23" high and weights up to 7.5 lb, with a lifespan of 20-30 years. Image ID: 23722 Species: Rockhopper penguin, Western rockhopper penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Magellanic penguins, in grasslands at the opening of their underground burrow. Magellanic penguins can grow to 30" tall, 14 lbs and live over 25 years. They feed in the water, preying on cuttlefish, sardines, squid, krill, and other crustaceans. Image ID: 23776 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | 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: 24388 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island |
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| King penguin colony and the Bay of Isles on the northern coast of South Georgia Island. Over 100,000 nesting pairs of king penguins reside here. Dark patches in the colony are groups of juveniles with fluffy brown plumage. The icebreaker M/V Polar Star lies at anchor. Image ID: 24383 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguins gather in a steam to molt, below a waterfall on a cobblestone beach at Hercules Bay. Image ID: 24384 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island | Gentoo penguin coming ashore, after foraging at sea, walking through ocean water as it wades onto a sand beach. Adult gentoo penguins grow to be 30" and 19lb in size. They feed on fish and crustaceans. Gentoo penguins reside in colonies well inland from the ocean, often formed of a circular collection of stones gathered by the penguins. Image ID: 23830 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Gentoo penguin coming ashore, after foraging at sea, walking through ocean water as it wades onto a sand beach. Adult gentoo penguins grow to be 30" and 19lb in size. They feed on fish and crustaceans. Gentoo penguins reside in colonies well inland from the ocean, often formed of a circular collection of stones gathered by the penguins. Image ID: 23832 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguin coming ashore, after foraging at sea, walking through ocean water as it wades onto a sand beach. Adult gentoo penguins grow to be 30" and 19lb in size. They feed on fish and crustaceans. Gentoo penguins reside in colonies well inland from the ocean, often formed of a circular collection of stones gathered by the penguins. Image ID: 23834 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Magellanic penguins walk through tussock grass, on their way to their burrows after foraging at sea all day. Image ID: 24000 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| King penguin preening. Salisbury Plain, Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island. Image ID: 24387 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | Macaroni penguins, on the rocky shoreline of Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island. One of the crested penguin species, the macaroni penguin bears a distinctive yellow crest on its head. They grow to be about 12 lb and 28" high. Macaroni penguins eat primarily krill and other crustaceans, small fishes and cephalopods. Image ID: 24390 Species: Macaroni penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus Location: Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island | Macaroni penguin, on the rocky shoreline of Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island. One of the crested penguin species, the macaroni penguin bears a distinctive yellow crest on its head. They grow to be about 12 lb and 28" high. Macaroni penguins eat primarily krill and other crustaceans, small fishes and cephalopods. Image ID: 24393 Species: Macaroni penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus Location: Hercules Bay, 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: 24405 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | 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: 24406 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: 24431 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: 24456 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | King penguin, solitary, standing. Image ID: 24602 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island | Adelie penguin, adult feeding chick by regurgitating partially digested food into the chick's mouth. The pink food bolus, probably consisting of krill and marine invertebrates, can be seen being between the adult and chick's beaks. Image ID: 25008 Species: Adelie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae Location: Shingle Cove, Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands, Southern Ocean |
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| Chinstrap penguins at Bailey Head, Deception Island. Chinstrap penguins enter and exit the surf on the black sand beach at Bailey Head on Deception Island. Bailey Head is home to one of the largest colonies of chinstrap penguins in the world. Image ID: 25456 Species: Chinstrap Penguin, Pygoscelis antarcticus Location: Deception Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Rockhopper penguins, on rocky coastline of New Island in the Falklands. True to their name, rockhopper penguins scramble over the rocky intertidal zone and up steep hillsides to reach their nesting colonies which may be hundreds of feet above the ocean, often jumping up and over rocks larger than themselves. Rockhopper penguins reach 23" and 7.5lb in size, and can live 20-30 years. They feed primarily on feed on krill, squid, octopus, lantern fish, molluscs, plankton, cuttlefish, and crustaceans. Image ID: 23744 Species: Rockhopper penguin, Western rockhopper penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | |
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