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Yellow-eyed Penguin
Megadyptes antipodes
The yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho (Megadyptes antipodes), of southern New Zealand and its subantarctic islands is one of the rarest penguins in the world, and its mainland population has fallen to somewhere around a hundred breeding pairs. It breaks the penguin rule of colonial …
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- Yellow-eyed Penguins are so rare that fewer than 2,000 breeding pairs remain in the wild, making them one of the rarest penguin species globally.
- It is the only penguin that refuses to nest within sight of another pair, so restoring its habitat means planting shrubs to give each nest a visual screen. It hunts along the seafloor rather than in open water, spending most of each dive down on the bottom. Its Maori name, hoiho, means "noise shouter", after its shrill trumpeting call. Fewer than about a hundred breeding pairs may remain on the New Zealand mainland, making it one of the rarest penguins alive.
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