BirdUp · Species
Erect-crested Penguin
Eudyptes sclateriBuller, 1888
Also known asPokotiwha
- Order
- SPHENISCIFORMES
- Family
- Spheniscidae
- Genus
- Eudyptes
- Conservation
- Endangered
- Commonness
- Rare
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The erect-crested penguin is a penguin endemic to the New Zealand region and only breeds on the Bounty and Antipodes Islands. It has black upper parts, white underparts and a yellow eye stripe and crest. It spends the winter at sea and little is known about its biology and breeding habits. Populations are believed to have declined during the last few decades of the twentieth century, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as being "endangered".
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- New Zealand: Bounty and Antipodes Islands
- Non-breeding range
- To waters of east South I. (New Zealand)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
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- May
- Jun
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- Aug
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