Adélie Penguin
Adélie Penguin on Antarctica's Petermann Island
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Sphenisciformes Family: Spheniscidae Genus: Pygoscelis Species: P. adeliae
Binomial name
Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)

Adélie Penguins at Cape Adare

The Adélie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae is common along the entire Antarctic coast and nearby islands. Aside from the storm petrel, they are the most southerly distributed of all seabirds. In 1830, French explorer Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adélie. Ross Island supports a colony of approximately half a million Adélie penguins. Download high resolution version (500x698, 72 KB)Photo of Adelie Penguin on Petermann Island, taken February 2001 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Adelie Penguin rookery on Petermann Island; their droppings make the gray rock pinkish. ... The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Image File history File links Status_iucn3. ... Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). ... This article is about penguin birds. ... This article is about penguin birds. ... Species Pygoscelis adeliae Pygoscelis antarctica Pygoscelis papua Pygoscelis tyreei (fossil) Pygoscelis calderensis (fossil) Pygoscelis grandis (fossil) The genus Pygoscelis (elbow-legged) contains three living species of penguins collectively known as The Brush-Tailed Penguins. Their appearance - black above, white below - is that of what most people think of when they... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Doctor Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798 - 1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. ... Honoré Jacquinot (1815 - 1887) was a French zoologist. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (3888 × 2592 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (3888 × 2592 pixel, file size: 2. ... Genera Subfamily Oceanitinadae Oceanites Pelagodroma Fregatta Neofregatta Subfamily Hydrobatinae Garrodia Hydrobates Oceanodroma Halocyptena The storm-petrels are seabirds in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. ... Seabirds are birds that spend much of their lives, outside the breeding season at least, at sea. ... Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont dUrville ( May 23, 1790 – May 8, 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. ... Map of Ross Island orthographic projection centred over Ross Island Ross Island is an island formed by three volcanoes in the Ross Sea by Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound at . ...

Appearance

These penguins are about 60 to 70 cm (24-28m) in length and 4.5 kg (10 lbs) in weight. Distinctive marks are the white ring surrounding the eye and the feathers at the base of the bill. These long feathers hide most of the red bill. The tail is a little bit longer than other penguins' tails.

Young Adélie Penguins
in Antarctica

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Reproduction

Adélie Penguins arrive at their breeding grounds in October. Their nests consist of stones piled together. Sometimes the competition for breeding sites gets so fierce that mothers will steal stones from neighbors' nests. The males summon the females with a low guttural noise followed by a loud cry. A female typically lays two eggs which are brown or green in color. In December, the warmest month in Antarctica (about -2°C), the parents take turns incubating the egg; one goes to feed and the other stays to warm the egg. The parent who is incubating does not eat. In March, the adults and their young return to the sea.

Diet

Although winter data is lacking, the Adélie penguin is known to feed mainly on Antarctic krill during the chick-rearing season, supplemented by Antarctic silverfish and glacial squid. The stable isotope record of fossil eggshell accumulated in colonies over the last 38,000 years reveals a sudden change from a fish-based diet to krill that started two hundred years ago. This is most likely due to the decline of the Antarctic fur seal since the late 1700's and baleen whales in the twentieth century. The reduction of competition from these predators has resulted in a surplus of krill, which the penguins now exploit as an easier source of food.^[1] Binomial name Euphausia superba Dana, 1850 The Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba ) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. ... Binomial name Boulenger, 1902 The Antarctic Silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum is a member of the suborder Notothenioidei of the Perciform fishes. ... Binomial name Psychroteuthis glacialis Thiele, 1920 Categories: Animal stubs | Squid ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The term eggshell is a term for the outer covering of a hard-shelled egg, and some forms of eggs with soft outer coats. ... Binomial name Peters, 1875 The Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of seven seals in the genus Arctocephalus. ... Families Balaenidae Balaenopteridae Eschrichtiidae Neobalaenidae Scientifically known as the Mysticeti, the baleen whales, also called whalebone whales or great whales, form a suborder of the order cetacea. ...

In popular culture

• Though the mascot of the Linux kernel Tux does not represent a single species of penguin, some believe that he resembles the likings of an Adelie Penguin.
• "Penguin's Progress" by Jill Tomlinson is a novel about Adélie Penguins growing up in Antarctica.
• The 1938 children's book Mr. Popper's Penguins revolves around the story of twelve Adélie penguins.
• The 1971 film Mr Forbush and The Penguins (Mr Forbush and The Penguins at the Internet Movie Database) follows John Hurt's character as he spends 6 months observing (and becoming attached to) a colony of Adelie penguins.
• The 1988 children's film The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin featured Adélie Penguins.
• The 1995 film The Pebble and the Penguin was based on Adélie courtship behavior wherein the birds build nests of pebbles to attract mates.
• The 2005 film Madagascar the Madagascar Penguins featured are presumed to be Adelie Penguins.
• The 2006 Film Happy Feet the main character Mumble, an Emperor Penguin, befriends a group of Cuban-accented Adélie penguins.
• In the webcomic Wally & Osborne, Osborne is an Adelie penguin.

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References

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External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet
• Info about all species of penguins

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Pygoscelis adeliae

• 70south.com: Info on Adélie Penguin
• Adélie Penguin images
• Photographs of Adélie Penguin
• Penguin World: Adélie Penguin
• Dr. George Murray Levick's 1914 book Antarctic Penguins