Sentences with phrase «southern rockhopper»

With its spiky head plumage and intense red eyes, the southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome, seen above) looks more like a slightly predatory guy at a college party than a committed monogamous partner.

All 18 species of penguin were studied; Emperor and Adelie (Antarctica), King, Chinstrap, Gentoo, Macaroni, Royal, Southern Rockhopper, Northern Rockhopper (Sub-Antarctic), Little, Fiordland, Snares, Erect - crested, Yellow - eyed (Oceania), and African, Magellanic, Humboldt and Galapágos (Africa and South America).

For four species of penguin that use the area for breeding — gentoos, southern rockhoppers, Magellanics, and kings — the mines are a boon.