- CHARACTERISTICS
- Their stature reaches up to 75 cm.
There are approximately 7.500.000 breeding pairs.
On land they build circular nests from stones although they can also procreate on icebergs, but prefer locations without ice.
- DIET
- Their diet basically consists of krill and a little fish.
- REPRODUCTION
- They lay around 2 eggs, which are alternately incubated by the father and mother in turns that last from 5 to 10 days.
The eggs hatch after 35 days.
The chicks remain in the nest from 20-30 days before joining the chick’s crèche.
Around 50-60 days old they moult their plumage, achieve adult colouring and go into the sea.
- CURIOSITIES
- In 2004, two male chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo called Roy and Silo formed a pair and took turns trying to incubate a stone; this was replaced with a fertile egg and the pair incubated and hatched the chick.
|
- NAME
- Chinstrap Penguin
- HABITAT
- South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland, South Georgia
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Pygoscelis antarctica
- SPICE
- Poultry
- DIET
- Piscivorous
|
|
| Tags: 
