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Giant petrels and orcas will occasionally kill adult Adelie penguins. Kelp gulls and snowy sheathbills also prey on chicks and eggs. [51] In 2024, researchers from Federation University Australia reported more than 532 dead Adélie penguins on Antarctica's Heroína Island, with the H5N1 bird flu suspected as the cause.
Colony of Adelie Penguin near the French Dumont d'Urville Station on Adélie Land, Antarctica. Part of the Pointe Géologie Archipelago in Adélie Land is protected by the Antarctic Specially Protected Area 120. [11] In 2016, a study predicted that an Adélie penguin colony located in Cape Dennison in Commonwealth Bay might be subject to ...
Dewar's expedition did find the presence of H5 strain bird flu on the Antarctic peninsula and three nearby islands in skua seabirds, predators which feed on penguin eggs and chicks.
Jean Pennycook holding an Adélie penguin chick. Jean Pennycook is an American educator and zoologist specializing in Antarctic Adélie penguins. [1] She is based in Cape Royds, an Antarctic Specially Protected Area which hosts a stable population of Adélie penguins. [2] [3]
An Adélie penguin named "Pingu" washed up on the coast of New Zealand Wednesday, almost 2,000 miles from its home in Antarctica. ... almost 2,000 miles from its home in Antarctica.
The positive cases included nine Adelie penguins and one Antarctic cormorant, Leon added. The virus was first found in skua seabirds on the Antarctic mainland last month.
The bay has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports one of the largest Adélie penguin colonies in Antarctica with around 125,000 pairs. Other birds nesting at the site include gentoo penguins, brown skuas, Antarctic terns, Wilson's storm-petrels, kelp gulls and snowy sheathbills. [9]
Area map of Cape Adare Topographic map of the Cape Adare region Borchgrevink's 1899 hut (HSM 22) surrounded by penguins Nicolai Hanson's grave (HSM 23) – 1899 photograph Adélie penguins on an ice foot at Cape Adare – photo by George Murray Levick, 1911 or 1912 Adélie penguins at Cape Adare