King penguin
Aptenodytes patagonicus
CommonPhoto: Liam Quinn from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0
Birdcarnivore
The king penguin is a tall, elegant bird that waddles across icy shores and dives into chilly waters. It's the second biggest penguin, with a sleek look resembling its larger cousin, the emperor penguin. These birds gather in noisy colonies on subantarctic islands.
- Second largest penguin species after the emperor penguin.
- Shares some visual similarities with emperor penguins.
- Nests on remote subantarctic islands rather than Antarctica itself.
PolarAntarctica
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- Classification
- Bird
- Scientific name
- Aptenodytes patagonicus
- Habitat
- Polar
- Regions in this directory
- Antarctica
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- large
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern (LC)
