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Penguins are vulnerable to exposure to oil spills due to their site fidelity, aquatic lifestyle and near-surface foraging habits. Across their range, penguins have been impacted by chronic and acute oil pollution at sea. The following list includes examples of events where impacts to penguins were documented. It is not exhaustive.
The Adélie penguin lives on sea ice but needs ice-free land to breed. With a reduction in sea ice, populations of the Adélie penguin have dropped by 65% over the past 25 years in the Antarctic Peninsula. [39] Young Adélie penguins that have no experience in social interaction may react to false cues when the penguins gather to breed.
Conservation status codes listed follow the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Range maps are provided wherever possible; if a range map is not available, a description of the penguin's range is provided. Ranges are based on the IOC World Bird List for that species unless otherwise noted ...
The emperor penguin is the heaviest and largest of the penguin species and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’s Red List as near threatened.
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Southern rockhopper penguin: Eudyptes chrysocome: 2 460 000 [21] VU [21] [21] Only mature individuals were included in the count (1.23 million pairs); population has declined 34% in the past 37 years. [21] Magellanic penguin: Spheniscus magellanicus: 2 600 000 [22] LC [22] [22] Only mature individuals were included in the count (1.3 million ...
The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. ... Conservation Status. ... the population of emperor penguins over the next 61 years with all ...
Gentoo penguins can reach a length of 70 to 90 cm (28 to 35 in), [19] [20] making them the third-largest species of penguin after the emperor penguin and the king penguin. Males have a maximum weight around 8.5 kg (19 lb) just before moulting and a minimum weight of about 4.9 kg (11 lb) just before mating.