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great-auk
The great auk's similarity to southern hemisphere penguins is due to parallel evolution - they are quite unrelated. The Icelanders called it "garefowl" ( ... It was extremely populous, numbering tens of millions of birds. It was the original penguin; southern hemisphere penguins got their name due to their similarity to European auks and puffins. It lived most ...
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Warrah Issue 15 Highlights
Agriculture veterinary scientists are still investigating. Rockys are More ProductiveRockhopper penguins had a much more successful year, with two of ... Southern Hemisphere, apart from albatrosses such as the Black-browed Mollymauk Thalassarche melanophrys, large numbers of petrels are killed on hooks, especially the Whitechinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis, by the hake fisheries off southern ...
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News from the Falklands June 1997
"Blackfish", are among the most common species which mass strand. In the southern hemisphere they are associated with the Humboldt, Falklands, and Benguela Currents, usually preferring deep ... cetaceans in Falkland waters. Southern Rockhopper Penguin Population Following a census of the Chilean population, a database of the world population of Southern Rockhopper penguins has been compiled by ...
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Natureandco.com - National Parks of New Zealand - Abel Tasman
New Zealand falcons, and keas in the uplands, are rare. Little blue penguins, which used to be common in all the bays, have been decimated by stoats and ... marble area. The major attraction there is Harwoods Hole, the greatest cave shaft in the southern hemisphere with a vertical drop of 176 m (577'). Tramping The park offers two major tramping ...
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Bird brain teaser
A. 10 B.23 C. 45 D. 5 4. Penguins only live in the .... A. Desert? B. Southern hemisphere C. Mediterranian? D. Antarctic? 5. Which bird has a reputation for ...
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Penguin - Arctic Mammal - The Penguin
Northern population of Rockhopper penguins (Davis & Renner, 2003). Although all penguin species are native to the southern hemisphere, they are not, contrary to popular belief, found only ... no land predators in Antarctica or the nearby offshore islands that prey on or attack penguins. Instead, penguins are at risk at sea from predators such as the leopard seal. More.. ...
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Hoiho Fact Sheet
Hoiho are endemic to New Zealand. About penguins..... Penguins are one of the most ancient families of birds. ... live. There are 15 species of penguins and they are all found in the Southern Hemisphere. Only three species breed on ... penguins nest in crowded, noisy colonies but not the hoiho. Hoiho pairs nest apart from other penguins, so they need a lot more space than other penguins ...
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LIPU-UK -> Working in Britain for Birds in Italy
Many are gulls, terns, petrels, penguins, pelicans and...the albatross. The death traps. Once again birds ... but also to petrels and other marine birds, both in southern latitudes and in the northern seas, even potentially in the ... total of 14 species dispersed throughout the oceans of the southern hemisphere and in the north Pacific. Completely at their ease in ...
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History of the Ocean - MarineBio.org
Northern Hemisphere, which is only 61% ocean. About 80% of the Southern Hemisphere is ocean. The ocean is traditionally classified into four large ... » Tuna: A Love Story » Why corals need urgent protection » No offshore drilling... stop oil speculation » Penguins = canaries in a coal mine » Is climate change for real? NASA website says yes! » Bluefin ...
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Penguins sound environmental alarm
Southern Hemisphere. But for most ... of Galapagos Islands penguins, the only species with a range that extends into the Northern Hemisphere, has fallen to around 2,500 birds, about one-quarter what it was when Boersma first studied the population in the 1970s. The number of Adélie and Chinstrap penguins ...
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