BirdUp · Species
Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
Eudyptes filholiHutton, FW, 1879
Also known asTawaki kaipiki toka
VulnerableNative
- Order
- SPHENISCIFORMES
- Family
- Spheniscidae
- Genus
- Eudyptes
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
- Commonness
- Rare
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The eastern rockhopper penguin, also known as the tawaki kaipiki toka, is a crested penguin with yellow crest feathers. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the western rockhopper penguin with the name "southern rockhopper penguin" for the combined species. It is one of the smallest crested penguins and has distinctive pink margins around its bill. It breeds on islands in the Southern Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- IO, AU : Prince Edward (south of South Africa), Crozet (south of Madagascar), Kerguelen and Heard (south-west and south-central South Indian Ocean), Macquarie (far south-east of Australia), Antipodes (south-east of Stewart I.) and Auckland and Campbell is. (south of South I.; New Zealand)
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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