Royal Penguin

 

Animal Unique | Royal Penguin | The Royal penguin inhabits the waters around Antarctica. Royal penguins look very much like Macaroni Penguins, but have a white face and chin instead of the black visage macaronis. The main basis for the Royal penguin habitat Macquarie Island, which is dotted with rocks, grass and small bushes. The birds spend about seven months of the year in coastal waters around the island.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Aves
Order:     Sphenisciformes
Family:     Spheniscidae
Genus:     Eudyptes
Species:     E. schlegeli

Royal penguins are the largest of the crested penguins penguins.Royal different from the other crested penguins by having white or light gray face and chin. They have black crowns, backs and fins mottled with white, short, stubby orange bills and yellow sulfur peaks above the eyes participating in the top of the head. Female birds are slightly smaller than males, but otherwise, the sexes are equal. 

There is some controversy over whether Royal penguins are a subspecies of Macaroni Penguins. Individuals of the two groups are known to cross, but this is a relatively rare event. Indeed, other penguins are known to form mixed species pairs in the wild. Royal penguins are migratory birds outside the breeding season and are expected to spend their time in the Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica. Their main breeding on Macquarie Island, located about halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica, and led by the Australian state of Tasmania.

Royal penguins nest on the beach or on the bare spots on hillsides covered with vegetation. Like most seabirds they are colonial, nesting in scratching the ground to one mile inland. Royal penguins lay two eggs. Two eggs are incubated for 35 days, with each incubation stint of up to two weeks. After incubation of the chick three weeks, both parents forage at sea, while the chicks form large creches. The chicks fledge after two months. Young adults often return to the colony to breed after six years.

Royal penguins feed on krill, fish, and small amounts of squid. They build their nests by making a shallow hole in the sand or in an area destroyed. They put plants and stones in the nest. Most of the time, often two eggs laid, only one survives. He main threats come from South polar hunters which both eggs and unprotected young.There is an additional risk that if the birds' breeding area is so limited, a natural or manmade disaster could easily wipe out take this kind of. 

Royal penguins are not considered endangered, historically they were harvested for their oil, between 1870 and 1919 the Government of Tasmania granting licenses to hunt them, with an average 150,000 penguins (both Royal and King) are taken per year. At the height of the industry in 1905, the plant was located on Macquarie Island penguins in the processing of 2,000 one time with each penguin producing about half a liter of oil.

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