King Penguin
📸 Photo by Michal Mrozek on Unsplash
The king penguin stands nearly a metre tall, with striking orange-yellow patches on neck and head. It breeds in huge colonies on sub-Antarctic islands and dives deep for fish and squid. Stable numbers make it one of the Southern Ocean’s success stories, though warming seas loom as a risk.
Technical factsheet
Type:bird
Habitat:island
Diet:piscivore
Continents:Antarctica, South America, Oceania, Africa
Size:Up to 95 cm height
Weight:11–16 kg
Activity:cathemeral
Social behavior:colony
Lifespan:20–25 years
Habitat: The King Penguin can be found in Argentina, Chile, Falkland-is, Fr-s-antarctic-lands, South-africa, Antarctica, Australia, Brazil, New-zealand, Uruguay