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 | Penguins of New ZealandPenguins are birds with feathers, wings, knees and lay eggs. They fly underwater. New Zealand has six species of penguin being the Blue, Yellow - eyed, Rockhopper, Fiordland, Erect - crested and Snares. Of the Yellow - eyed Penguin about 500 breeding pair exist in the South Island and another 150 on Stewart Island. The balance of 1300 or so are on Sub Antarctic islands. There are about 3000 pair of the Fiordland Penguin. The Little Blue Penguin is the smallest. |  | ||||
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Fiordland
Crested Penguin - Eudyptes Pachyrhynchus | ||||||
Fiordland
Crested Penguin - Eudyptes Pachyrhynchus | ||||||
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| Fiordland Crested Penguin chick - Eudyptes Pachyrhynchus | ||||||
Fiordland
Crested Penguin - Eudyptes Pachyrhynchus | ||||||
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Little
Blue Penguin - Eudyptula Minor | ||||||
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Yellow - eyed Penguin - Hoiho - Megadyptes antipodes | ||||||
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Yellow - eyed Penguin - Hoiho - Megadyptes antipodes | ||||||
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Yellow - eyed Penguin - Hoiho
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Fiordland
Crested Penguins - Eudyptes pachyrhynchus
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