Sunday, 4 March 2012

Falklands Wildlife 10 the Rockhopper Penguins

Where to start with these plucky little birds…. 

Like the Gentoos they don’t make life easy for themselves.  The Gentoos have their colonies at the top of a hill, the Rockhoppers chose to come ashore in really dangerous places – that might make more sense than the Gentoos as dangerous places might be safer from predation.

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He’s either been sick or been pooed over.

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Another grubby lot.

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Rockhoppers seems to gather together out to sea and then porpoise in as a group.  It’s wonderful to watch

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Rockhoppers just enjoying a swim

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but they don’t usually chose a beach to land on

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Just imagine the muscles to do that….

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Another colony, another impossible landing place

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These two were friends and groomed each other

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Squauking

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