Penguin Watch Talk

Lets Talk Penguins!

  • Pendileno by Pendileno

    Here is a page where Penguin Watchers can talk about their findings and discoveries. Enjoy and Happy Penguin Watching!

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  • Pendileno by Pendileno

    I have a question for everyone; how many Gentoo penguins are there roughly in the Antarctic?

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  • Pendileno by Pendileno

    According to my research, there is just 320,000 breeding pairs of Gentoo Penguins!

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    That's interesting! Don't forget to say your source of information ( if you can). 320,000 is not a lot. But we hope to get those numbers increasing again. We've already had some success I understand.

    There's more info on our short science page: https://www.penguinwatch.org/#/science

    And Dr Hart's done some interesting blogs: https://penguinlifelines.wordpress.com/

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  • Pendileno by Pendileno

    My source is [www.penguins.cl/gentoo-penguins.htm]

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    Thank you - always good to quote this detail as it recognizes other's scientific research and allows others to assess how they view that information. 😄

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  • Pendileno by Pendileno

    I will source from now on.

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  • Pendileno by Pendileno

    I have another question; what is the Genus name of Gentoo Penguins?

    According to The Gentoo Penguin page on Wikipedia , it is Pygoscelis!

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    Gentoo is Pygoscelis papua

    Adelie is Pygoscelis adeliae

    Chinstrap is Pygoscelis antarctica

    These look related and they are related . They are also called 'fan tailed' penguins as a group. Sometimes you spot the tail in the fan shape.

    
A really good site for learning more is: http://www.photovolcanica.com/ which might sound a bit odd, but there are volcanoes in Antarctica, and that site has decide to cover good detail about the penguin inhabitants.

http://www.photovolcanica.com/PhotovolcanicaFullIndex.html#Penguins  has a useful index. We have seen the Pygoscelids, King Penguins, Rockhoppers, Macaronis and Magellanic penguins from that list over the last year on PenguinWatch.

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  • Pendileno by Pendileno

    Ok thanks for this info! just to let you know, I have moved to Let's Actually Talk Penguins so posts will be in there from now on

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