Adélie penguin
pygoscelis adeliae latin

He found the Adélie penguins and named them after his wife.

Adélie penguins are one of the most southern seabirds in the world.

In turn, the Adélie penguins split off from the other members of the genus around 19 million years ago.

Sexual abuse has been identified among animals too, for example among the Adélie penguins.

Most Adélie penguins incubate two eggs at a time.

Formerly, some 1000 pairs of Adélie Penguins also bred there.

The island is colonized by a large group of brooding Adélie Penguins.

Adélie penguins live in groups called colonies.

Occasionally, Adélie Penguins can be seen at the oasis.

The Adélie penguins of Antarctica are pretty sedentary, too.

Ross Island supports a colony of approximately half a million Adélie Penguins.

Odbert also has breeding colonies of Adélie Penguins.

There are about 2.5 million Adélie penguins in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Adélie penguins are the smallest penguins in Antarctica.

Adélie penguins are preyed on by leopard seals, skua, and occasionally, orcas.

Adélie penguins travel the furthest to breed because they build their nests from stones and need to find stones.

Young Adélie penguins who have no experience in social interaction may react to false cues when the penguins gather to breed.

Both species are increasing their populations and beginning to replace Adélie penguins across a broad range in the western Antarctic Peninsula.

On its long beach more than 20,000 Adélie penguins and a smaller group of Gentoo Penguins have found their home.

Over the past two decades, Fraser and his colleagues have identified two main culprits in the decline of the region's Adélie penguins.

Adélie penguins arrive at their breeding grounds in October or November, at the end of winter and the start of spring.

Within several decades, Fraser believes, Adélie penguins will disappear from the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula.

Polar bears and Adélie Penguins lose their habitat and the Inuit people have to adapt as well.

Other birds nesting at the site include Adélie Penguins and Southern Giant Petrels.