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[birdblues]

Erect-crested Penguin

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Little is known about the erect-crested penguin, because research is hampered by the remoteness of the two islands (Bounty and Antipodes Islands) they breed on and the difficulty of getting permits to visit said islands.

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All penguin species (1/2)

Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)

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African penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

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Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus)

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Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)

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Erect-crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri)

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Fiordland Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus)

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Galápagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus)

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Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua)

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Erect-Crested Penguin

Center for Biological Diversity

[may-the-best-penguin-win]

Round 1 Match 1

The Erect-Crested penguin is one of many crested penguins. These guys live in the New Zealand region and are on the endangered species list. They only breed on the Bounty and Antipodes Islands near New Zealand. Erect-Crested penguins are around 20-28 inches (50-70 cm) tall.

The Little Blue penguin, also called the Fairy penguin, Blue penguin, or Little penguin, is the smallest penguin, standing at a height of about 12-14 inches (30-40cm). They also live in the New Zealand region. Little Blues earned their name with their bluish feathers. These penguins burrow for their nests, and lay two eggs, like most other penguins. The first part of their scientific name "Eudyptula minor" means "good little diver".

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The crested penguins of New Zealand. In Maori they are called “Tawaki”. Belonging to the genus Eudyptes, they are the Fiordland penguin (E. Pachyrhynchus), the Snares (E. Robustus) and the Erect-crested (E. sclateri).

Due to how closely related they are, it is debated whether they are a single species with three subspecies, or three distinct species. It’s difficult to tell them apart since they are so similar.

above: the fiordland penguin

Unlike the other two species, the fiordland penguin has small white stripes underneath its eyes, and has no bare skin around its beak. Like the snares penguin, its crest (the yellow eyebrows) does not stand up. This penguin is known for swimming very far for food. These chaps nest in forests.

above: snares penguin

the snares penguin looks almost exactly like the fiordland penguin, but it lacks the white stripes below its eyes, and has a bare area of skin around the beak. The fellows breed on the Snares Islands.

this is the erect-crested penguin. Like the snares penguin, it has a bare area of skin around its beak. Unlike the other two species, it has a crest that stands up, hence the name. These guys only breed on the Bounty and Antipode islands.

[daymemebeliever]

Hey Fanguins! Want to Help Real Life Penguins? :D

Why Now?

5 out of the 18 penguin species are listed as endangered

That’s approximately 28% that are endangered, not including those under the “vulnerable” or “near threatened” statuses.

These endangered species include:

The Yellow-eyed Penguin

Northern Rockhopper Penguin

Galapagos Penguin

Erect-Crested Penguin

African Penguin

Cute little guys like these African penguins are predicted to go EXTINCT by 2035.

Biggest Threats to Penguins:

Overfishing

Plastic Pollution

Oil Spills

Habitat Disruption

Invasive Species

Climate Change

So… What can We Do?

I know sometimes it seems hopeless when there are major corporations having extensive negative impacts on the environment.

But there are small, everyday changes you may be able to make to contribute for the better (at least a little).

Small actions can add up over time.

Shop Consciously

Overfishing and unregulated fishing are big contributors to penguin populations decreasing.

Less available prey means penguins have to spend longer time at sea to feed their chicks and themselves. This could force them to abandon their chicks, reach the point of exhaustion and pass away as a result, or return to emaciated chicks.

Seafood Watch is a wonderful resource to ensure the seafood you’re buying has been caught sustainably. https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/download-consumer-guides

Swap for More Sustainable Options

Aside from seafood, you might be able to make many swaps to reusable products.

Reusable grocery bags/tote bags can actually make transporting groceries easier while reducing plastic usage.

If you have access to clean water, a water filter pitcher or a reusable water bottle are also great options when available! 😊

Swapping plastic containers for aluminum cans or cartons (these are easier to recycle)

Swap balloons for other party favors (many released balloons end up in our oceans). Penguins and other sea animals can choke on or get tangled in these while swimming.

Conscious Pet Ownership

Choose pets responsibly and never abandon a pet if you can no longer take care of it. This could lead to the rise of invasive species.

Keep pets on a leash when outside even when you do not see local wildlife.

Penguins, especially those whose habits are around human populations, are regularly attacked and lethally injured by unattended dogs or cats. These include feral or stray animals that have become invasive.

Learn More Directly from Non-Profits:

SANCCOB is an internationally renowned rehabilitation center for South African seabirds (including African penguins) leading conservation efforts for this species. https://sanccob.co.za/about-sanccob/

The Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust is another great non-profit located in New Zealand that tracks behavior and nesting patterns of the Yellow-eyed penguins. They also remove invasive predators to ensure Yellow-eyed penguins have a chance at repopulating to sustainable levels. https://www.yellow-eyedpenguin.org.nz/yellow-eyed-penguin-trust/about-the-trust/

Penguins International is a nonprofit that educates about penguins and penguin conservation efforts. https://www.penguinsinternational.org/about-us/

Any AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums that support conservation efforts

Advocate:

Sign petitions encouraging legislation change that aims to reduce climate change or regulate fishing

Write to/email legislators when penguin species are at risk

Donate (if you can/would like):

Both Penguins International and SANCCOB do symbolic penguin adoptions to support penguin conservation.

On SANCCOB’s website, you can choose an egg, hatchling, rehabilitated penguin, or long-term penguin resident to symbolically adopt/sponsor. You even get to give your adopted penguin a name!

The Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust also accepts donations of various amounts.

I figured since if you follow this blog, penguins have inspired media and art that means a lot to you or that has at least brightened your day. If you’re as amazed as I am about the real life species, please consider taking steps to help or learn more about real penguins. I figured sharing this information, while trying to make these changes myself, are the least I could do to honor these amazing creatures!

Thank you for reading! 😁

(Lol I’ll get off my soapbox now 😉)

Maybe Tom McGrath can explain it better 😉 (skip to 3:16 to hear him talk about how amazing penguins are! 😊)

[sapphicpenguin]

disclaimer: this list is wikipedia-sourced. taxonomists disagree about the exact number of penguin species.

go to this website for a quick species rundown!

[tanoraqui]

For the fanfic director’s cut: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I was going to respond seriously to this, but when I went to find the appropriate googledoc, the googledoc I had open already was "Penguins (A Divine Quest, Probably)", the planning doc for the D&D 5e campaign I ideated by never ran (yet). The premise is: all players are penguins in a post-apocalyptic world in which nuclear radiation a) returned magic to the world and b) made penguins sentient and gave them mild tactile telekinesis, ie, the ability to manipulate (moderately lightweight) objects with their mind while physically touching them (to avoid issues like 'no thumbs' and 'average penguin is about 3ft tall and minimal strength'.)

So I'll share my list of species correlations instead, including reasoning:

Great Penguins

Emperor - BIG BOYS (36-37kg), no nests - Goliath

King - lorge (15ish kg), chicks grow slowly, yellow feather “crown”, deep divers, common - Minotaur 

Brush-Tailed Penguins

Adelie- medium (5ish kg), particularly cold-resistant, line nests with stones, common - Elf

Chinstrap - 5ish kg, pretty (says this site), nest on slopes, common - Half-elf

Gentoo - standardish penguins? 5+a bit kg, Antarctic continent + islands, like crab, common - Human

Little Penguins

Little - SMOLEST CHILDES (1ish kg), nocturnal, common - Svartniblin 

Fairy - ditto smol and habitat?? - Gnome  

Banded Penguins

Galapagos - smol! (2ish kg), equatorial (very good in heat) - Halfling

African - 3ish kg, burrow much, used to warmer (African) weather - Dwarrow-Dwarf

Humboldt - 5-a bit kg, burrow some, occupy cold Peruvian current but hot (desert/Mediterranean) breeding site. Fucked by El Nino some years - Mountain Dwarf

Magellanic - 5-a bit kg, burrow breeders, ~ African but South American - Hill Dwarf

Large Divers

Yellow-eyed - 5.5ish kg, maybe rarest penguin, nest in plants - Aasimar 

[EXTINCT] Waitaha

Crested Penguins

Rockhopper (Southern, Eastern, Northern) - 2.5ish kg, red eyes, tiny but fierce - Goblin 

Snares - 3ish kg, endemic to Snares Islands, kill forest with guano quantity, yellow eyebrows - Hobgoblin 

Fiordland - 4ish kg, endemic to New Zealand rainforests - Half-orc 

Macaroni - 5+a bit kg, don’t Land much when not breeding, weird orange hair - Kobold

Erect-crested - 5ish kg, tall crests (~horns!) - Tiefling

Royal - 5+a bit kg, related to Macaroni probably (yellow hair), nest in open. Standardish - Dragonborn 

[EXTINCT] Chatham

Humans = giants, 1 enclave per type

Other birds (terns, mostly? not albatross? Must really live there) arakockra

Genasi may be done as a half-heritage thing, ie, half genasi, half established race

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a gender for when ones gender is related to a breed of penguin and frills, a penguin wearing frills, a frilly penguin, etc.

african penguin / australian little penguin / royal penguin erect-crested penguin / fiordland penguin snares penguin / rockhopper penguin / humboldt penguin gentoo penguin / little blue penguin

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Phylogeny Guessing Game: Seabirds

Which of the two following birds are more closely related, and which one is the outgroup? Answers under the cut. (Disclaimer: I'm not a bird scientist, just a gal reading Wikipedia, so if the latest science disagrees with any of these, please let me know! Also I am linking to the Wikipedia pages for all of these birds, so you see the relationships as they currently stand for yourself)

Round 1:

A) Quail plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) (Nigel Voaden) B) European herring gull (Larus argentatus) (Andreas Trepte) C) Short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) (James Lloyd)

Round 2:

A) Parakeet auklet (Aethia psittacula) (Art Sowls) B) European herring gull (Larus argentatus) (Andreas Trepte) C) Great skua (Stercorarius skua) (Ómar Runólfsson)

Round 3:

A) Parakeet auklet (Aethia psittacula) (Art Sowls) B) Erect-crested penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) (C00ch) C) Short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) (James Lloyd)

Round 1: A and B, not C The quail plover (A) and the European herring gull (B) are both in the order Charadriiformes (and maybe both in the suborder Lari depending on who you ask?), while the short-tailed albatross (C) is in the order Procellariiformes.

Round 2: A and C, not B These are all in the suborder Lari, but the auks (Alcidae) like the parakeet auklet (A) and the skuas (Stercorariidae) like the great skua (C) are closer to each other than they are to gulls like the European herring gull (B) (in Laridae with terns, skimmers, and some other seabirds).

Round 3: B and C, not A The erect-crested penguin (B) and the short-tailed albatross (C) are both members of Austrodyptornithes, which is the penguins (Sphenisciformes) plus the tube-nosed seabirds (Procellariiformes) like albatrosses, while the parakeet auklet (A) as previously discussed is Charadriiform

thanks for playing my bird game!

[fullmoonfireball]

y'know what after the "vesper, you're a penguin" thang i keep wondering this so.

because of the 10 option limit I had to exclude the Fiordland, Snares, Erect-crested, and the Yellow-Eyed penguins. banded penguins are not included here for good reason, but if you WANT to argue for one of them i guess you can?

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ERECT CRESTED PENGUIN TYTO??? :O

not quite!! I'm still fiddling with it but tyto's whole deal is meant to be a mix between a rooster and a hyena- the thing on their head is meant to be similar to a rooster comb!

[hobbitpenguin]

Ama: favorite research trip take away (scientific or not)?

Hmmm that’s an interesting question. Takeaway as in something I learned on a research trip? I’d say scientifically my favorite takeaway this season was seeing just how awkward juvenile erect-crested penguins are when they come back to land for the first time. They return in December after a full year at sea, never touching land. And when they land they look so confused like they don’t really understand why they are there or what to do. Then they get on the rocks and don’t know how to use their feet so they lay down and try to swim on the rocks. Which doesn’t work so then they stand but they wobble and fall over. It made me realize just how deeply penguins are connected to the sea. They are totally in their element in the water so much so that they just forget how to function on land for a while when they have to come back. They figure it out after a few minutes but it really show how crazy specialized they are for marine life.

Non-scientific I learned that I am capable of a lot more physically and mentally than I thought i was when it comes to extremely difficult and dangerous terrain and weather conditions.

[may-the-best-penguin-win]

Round 2 Match 1

These two penguins both won against crested penguins. Little Blue won against the Erect-Crested, with the biggest gap of the round, while King won against the Fiordland.

A couple facts to take with us into round 2: Little Blue penguins are also called Little penguins, Blue penguins, or Fairy penguins. They are the smallest penguin species. King penguins are similar to Emperor penguins. This King penguin is pictured with a King penguin chick.