Long-tailed penguins

Long-tailed penguins
	Gentoo penguin ( Pygoscelis papua )
Systematics
Trunk :	Chordates (chordata)
Row :	Land vertebrates (Tetrapoda)
Class :	Birds (aves)
Order :	Penguins (Sphenisciformes)
Family :	Penguins (Spheniscidae)
Genre :	Long-tailed penguins
Scientific name
	Pygoscelis
	Wagler , 1832

The Pygoscelis ( pygoscelis ; after . Greek "pygoskelis" = "Lappentaucher") are a bird genus within the family of penguins (Spheniscidae). Without exception, they are black and white and molt at the end of the respective breeding season. All species are very social, the chinstrap penguin forms the largest penguin colony on Zavodovski Island with an estimated 600,000 breeding pairs.

species

There are three types of long-tailed penguins: Gentoo penguin ( P. papua ), Adelie penguin ( P. adeliae ) and Chinstrap penguin ( P. antarctica ), which is also known as the thilled penguin .

Chinstrap penguin
Gentoo penguin
Adelie penguin

literature

Tony D. Williams: The Penguins . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19854-667-X

Web links

Commons : Long-tailed penguins - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Heather J. Lynch, Richard White, Ron Naveen, Andy Black, Marcia S. Meixler: In stark contrast to widespread declines along the Scotia Arc, a survey of the South Sandwich Islands finds a robust seabird community . In: Polar Biology . tape 39 , no. 9 , September 1, 2016, ISSN 0722-4060 , p. 1615-1625 , doi : 10.1007 / s00300-015-1886-6 ( springer.com [accessed May 29, 2018]).

[1] Heather J. Lynch, Richard White, Ron Naveen, Andy Black, Marcia S. Meixler: In stark contrast to widespread declines along the Scotia Arc, a survey of the South Sandwich Islands finds a robust seabird community . In: Polar Biology . tape 39 , no. 9 , September 1, 2016, ISSN 0722-4060 , p. 1615-1625 , doi : 10.1007 / s00300-015-1886-6 ( springer.com [accessed May 29, 2018]).