king penguins
Tall flightless seabirds
King penguins are the second-largest penguin species, found on subantarctic islands.
They stand about three feet tall with distinctive orange-gold patches on their heads and upper chests.
Unlike most penguins, king penguins don't build nests—they incubate a single egg on their feet beneath a fold of skin: We watched king penguins shuffle across the beach with eggs balanced on their feet.
- coloniesTerritories under foreign control
- subantarcticBordering the southernmost zone
- carnivorousFeeding on animal flesh
- South GeorgiaSubantarctic island territory
- Falkland IslandsBritish archipelago near Argentina
molt · flightless · courtship · incubation · pair bonding · huddling · seabirds · thermoregulation · krill · feathers · breeding grounds · marine sanctuary · Southern Ocean · cold climate · species · protected area · tuxedo look · endemic species
- seabirdspelican, pelicans, seagull, gull, gulls
- penguin colonyrookery, huddle, huddles, creche, creches
- South GeorgiaErnest Shackleton, Shackleton, whaling station, whaling stations, elephant seal
- marine ecosystemsphytoplankton, oceans, zooplankton, marine life, krill
- FalklandsStanley, Malvinas, archipelago, Darwin, Fitzroy
- French Subantarctic