Snares Crested Penguin

This is a medium-small, yellow-crested penguin, at a size of 50-70 cm and a weight of 2.5–4 kg . It has dark blue-black upperparts and white underparts. It has a bright yellow eyebrow-stripe which extends over the eye to form a drooping, bushy crest. It has bare pink skin at the base of its large red-brown bill.

The Snares Crested Penguin is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

* TerraNature - Snares crested penguin, images and information on six New Zealand penguins v • d • e Penguins (order: Sphenisciformes • family: Spheniscidae • subfamily: Spheniscinae) Genus Species Aptenodytes (great penguins) King Penguin • Emperor Penguin Pygoscelis (brush-tailed penguins) Adelie Penguin • Chinstrap Penguin • Gentoo Penguin Eudyptula (little penguins) Little Penguin (or Little Blue Penguin) • White-flippered Penguin (or More

The Snares crested penguin Eudyptes robustus only breeds on North East Island, Broughton Island, and two rock islets in the Western Chain of the Snares Islands group. It is one of four species that are endemic to New Zealand, and one of the country's six species of breeding penguins. In a census conducted in 2000 on North East Island, 25,861 pairs of nesting Snares crested penguins were counted. Another 4,000 pairs were estimated to be on Broughton Island. More

The Snares crested penguin only breeds on the small (total of 341 ha) Snares Islands. The islands are mostly covered in mostly covered in a forest of the tree daisies Olearia lyalli and Brachyglottis stewartiae. The penguins nest in dense colonies of up to 1500 pairs, usually with part of the colony under vegetation. Snares penguins can often be seen roosting on branches overhanging the colony, sometimes up to 2m off the ground. More

Snares crested penguins run the gauntlet of predatory sealions to feed their chicks. Snares crested penguins have no shortage of food, but getting it back to their chicks can be a deadly ordeal. Twice a day the adults have to return to the nests to feed their chicks running the gauntlet of the Hookers sealions waiting for them on the beach. More

While the Snares crested penguin is not considered to be at risk, populations of other crested penguins in the sub-antarctic appear to be declining and information from the Snares was needed to see if any management actions were required. While population estimates had been made at the Snares based on chick counts, a count of nesting pairs had never been carried out and the last chick count was done in 1987. The population was then estimated at 23,000 breeding pairs. More

RANGE: The Snares crested penguin is restricted to New Zealand’s Snares Islands, a single small island group totaling no more than three square kilometers. Range Map MIGRATION: Snares crested penguins are not thought to range very far during winter, with virtually no sightings at sea away from the breeding islands. Molting birds have been seen ashore on Macquarie, Campbell, Antipodes, and Chatham islands, and birds are occasionally seen on beaches at Stewart Island and the South New Zealand mainland. More

Snares Crested Penguin, Eudyptes robustus - International Penguin Conservation Working Group New Zealand Penguins, by Dave Houston Search the Web for Snares Penguin More

the Snares Crested Penguin and the Snares Islands Penguin, is a penguin from New Zealand. It breeds on The Snares, a group of islands off the southern coast of the South Island. Description: This is a medium-small, yellow-crested penguin, at a size of about 55 cm (22 in) and a weight of 3.4 kg (7.6 lbs). It has dark blue-black upperparts and white underparts. It has a bright yellow eyebrow-stripe which extends over the eye to form a drooping, bushy crest. More

Snares Crested penguins and what they look like. However, from the few data that is available, a disturbing picture emerges. In 1988 a scientific publication indicated that annual survivorship of adult Snares Crested penguins up to 5 years of age was only around 50%. In 2001, another study reported the minimum survival rate of fledglings to be only 15% in their first year. More

Snares crested penguin, Rod Morris Top 4th right, center 3rd down; Erect-crested penguin, Tui De Roy Top 5th right, center 4th down; Fiordland crested penguin Tui De Roy Top 6th right; Eastern rockhopper penguin Center 5th down; Eastern rockhopper penguin, J.L. Kendrick Top 7th right, center 6th down; Southern little blue penguin, Rosalind Cole Top 8th right, center 7th down; Northern little blue penguin Rod Morris. More

Pictures of Snares Crested penguins, with their elegant feathers on the head. Snares crested penguin, New Zealand, sub-antarctic islands A large group of penguins are foraging out onto sea. Snares crested penguin, New Zealand Snares crested penguin, New Zealand Group of penguins return from the sea, while others depart. More

Snares Crested Penguin leaping out of the water, Snares Island, Antarctica - 003115-SB1 Eudyptes robustus - Steve Bloom Click a keyword below to search for other images snares island sub antarctic islands antarctica antarctica antartica animal animals untamed untamable sauvage wild wildlife wilderness wild animal wild animals untamed animal nature wildlife photography photo photos photograph photographs photography southern sub-zero temperatures weather snares crested penguin snares crested penguins eudyptes robustus bird birds blue care caring cold More

Snares crested penguin (1st of 2) = Snares crested penguin Snares crested penguin (1st of 2) When all is calm, crested penguins’ crests lie flat as seen here. When the penguins are excited, their crests behave in different ways according to the species: standing erect in a fan (erect-crested); sticking out sideways (rockhopper); or flicked out at the back (Snares and Fiordland crested penguins). More

Snares crested penguin (1st of 2) Snares crested penguin (1st of 2) Fiordland crested penguins Fiordland crested penguins Snares crested penguins Snares crested penguins Erect-crested penguins preening Erect-crested penguins preening Eastern rockhopper penguin Eastern rockhopper penguin New Zealand is significant in the evolution of crested penguins – four of the world's five species breed there, three exclusively. More