Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...
The southern rockhopper subspecies breeds on the Falkland Islands and in southern Chile and southern Argentina. The eastern rockhopper penguin breeds on Prince Edward Island and the Marion Islands in ...
Rockhopper penguin numbers are reported to be stable. According to the most recent count in the Falklands, the number of Gentoo penguin breeding pairs has doubled when compared with the number ...
The original 50p coins featured the wrong variety of Rockhopper penguin But one of them featured a variety of penguin that was actually native to an island 4,000km away, making them more valuable ...
Pico, whose name means “beak” in Spanish, honors the penguin’s South American roots, while Douglas is named after a settlement on East Falkland Island, home to many rockhopper penguins.
Two endangered penguin eggs have successfully hatched at Edinburgh Zoo. The Northern Rockhopper penguins are threatened due to climate change, changes in marine ecosystems and overfishing.