Yellow-Eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes)
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Size: 65cm, 5.4kg

Description: Large penguin, white front, dark grey back and tail. Yellow eye with a band of yellow featheres starting at the eye and encircling the head. Many yellow feathers with black feather shafts on head giving a stripy mottled pattern. Beak bright orange/read at tip. Juveniles lack yellow band and head colouring.

Habitat: Lives and breeds in and around the sothern south island from Banks penninsular to Bluff, Stewart Island and the some of the sub-antarctic islands.

Status: Protected, endangered endemic. Approx 6000.

Breeding: September - March. Return to same nesting area each year, laying 1 to 2 eggs.

Where to photograph: Katiki Point - near Moeraki and Sandfly Bay - Otago Penninsular at good free entry sites.

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