Penguins

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Gentoo penguins.

Petermann Island

Gentoo penguins, chicks feeding.

Petermann Island

Adelie penguins.

Petermann Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Adelie penguin.

Torgersen Island

Pick up a stone from this pile...

Torgersen Island

...and move it over to this pile.

Torgersen Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Adelie chick lunchtime.

Torgersen Island

Skua harrassing Adelies.

Torgersen Island

One of those days when you just don't fit in. (Macaroni penguin among chinstrap penguins.)

Hannah Point

 

 

 

 

 

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Cute chicks.

Hannah Point

Chinstrap penguin beach party.

Baily Head, Deception Island

Enormous chinstrap penguin colony.

Baily Head, Deception Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Chinstrap penguin returning to its nest after feeding.

Baily Head, Deception Island

Chinstrap penguin in ecstatic display.

Baily Head, Deception Island

Penguin Superhighway.

Baily Head, Deception Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Adelie penguin colony.

Paulet Island

Adelie penguin.

Laurie Island

Adelie penguins tobogganing.

Laurie Island

 

 

 

 

 

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King penguin barbershop quartet?

St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island

King penguins.

St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island

Michelle with king penguins.

St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Reindeer imported by whalers. Perhaps Santa Claus has moved to South Georgia Island, too?

St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island

King penguin colony.

St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island

King penguin duo.

St. Andrews Bay

 

 

 

 

 

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You're probably wondering why I've called you here...

St. Andrews Bay

King penguins yearn to fly?

St. Andrews Bay

I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!

St. Andrews Bay

 

 

 

 

 

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Penguins at the end of the rainbow.

St. Andrews Bay

King penguin crowd.

St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island

Macaroni penguin in the tussock grass.

Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Macaroni penguin and chicks.

Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island

Macaroni penguin colony in the tussock grass.

Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island

Dinnertime.

Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Macaroni chick creche.

Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island

King penguin cooling off.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

Oakum Boy (King penguin chick hatched the previous year).

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

 

 

 

 

 

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King penguins: the next generation.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

Flirting.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

The place to see and be seen.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

 

 

 

 

 

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Seduction.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

A King penguin deserving of the name.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

A curious duo follows Michelle and Allen for half an hour.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

 

 

 

 

 

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A day at the beach.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

King penguin returning from the sea.

Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island

Magellanic penguins.

Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands