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Beautiful specimen in its natural environment

$Taxon name: Northern Rockhopper Penguin\nTaxon scientific name: Eudyptes moseleyi\nLocation: Tasmania, Australia$

Their common name refers to the fact that, unlike many other penguins which get around obstacles by sliding on their bellies or by awkward climbing using their flipper-like wings as aid, rockhoppers will try to jump over boulders and across cracks.

A Rockhopper penguin standing in the rain.

Southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) at zoo

A Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome; protecting its newly-hatched chick, and an egg which is yet to hatch. Pebble Island, Falkland Islands.

portrait of a Rockhopper Penguin

Northern Rockhopper penguin close up

Rockhoppers are distinguished from other crested penguins by their smaller size and by having only a thin yellow superscilium. The feather plumes are yellow, not orange as in Macaroni Penguin, and thinner than in the remaining Eudyptes species. The red eye is distinctive. Southern Rockhopper Penguins differ from their Northern counterparts in having a narrower supercilium and shorter plumes, which reach just over the black throat. Their vocalisations are also different. The Southern Rockhopper actually comprises two subspecies that have been described and can be identified in the field: the nominate form from South America and the Falkland Islands and the eastern subspecies filholi from the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands. The eastern form mainly differs from the nominate subspecies in having a pink line of fleshy skin along the lower mandible which is black in the nominate subspecies. Immature birds have only a narrow supercilium and a pale mottled grey chin. Identification of juveniles is difficult. Shape of the supercilium, bill shape, body size and underwing pattern can aid identification. Separation of juvenile Southern and Northern Rockhopper Penguins in the field is probably impossible.

Rockhoppers are the most widespread crested penguins

The southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is found on the Falklands Islands.

Cape Town, South Africa - A Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin. They are found along the shorelines of South Africa.

A Southern rockhopper penguin at one of the nesting sites on New Island, Falkland Islands

An alert Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, standing on top of a cliff, looking at the camera, with a background of the South Atlantic Ocean. Sea Lion Island, Falklands. Cropping options and plenty of copy space

Rockhopper penguin

A Rockhopper penguin portrait in the rain.

Rockhopper penguin Falkland Island, travel to Antarctica

South Orkney Islands are a remote Antarctic island chain.

southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) isolated on white

Rockhopper penguins on rocks of a steep cliff, seen on West Point, part of Falksland Islands

the fairy penguin is diving into the water

A 6-9 month baby looking at a Rockhopper penguin.

A Rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome standing on rocks facing the camera on Isla Pinguino Argentina

A cute Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, craning its neck round curiously at the photographer on Pebble Island, Falkland Islands.

Macaroni Penguin standing on Stone and Ice in fornt of black and blue Background.

Penguins swimming in the water

Portrait of a Southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) against clear background, Saunders island, Falkland Islands.

Booth Island is in the northeastern of the Wilhelm Archipelago and was discovered and named by German expedition 1873.

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi), also known as Moseleys rockhopper penguin, or Moseley's penguin

$One wild gentoo penguin running through Antarctica ice covered rookery.\n\nTaken in Antarctica$

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