Subject: APZ000fgbn

Full subject data (JSON)

Comments

• by michaelwillett15

  What is up with all the shrubbery, and why are the penguins in it? Are they using it to keep warm?

  Posted February 22, 2018 6:45 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  They are nesting there 😃

  Posted February 22, 2018 6:49 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  Hi @michaelwillett15 😃 As@yshish mentions, this is the Falkland Islands (or somewhere close to them). This means that there's grass instead

  Posted February 22, 2018 8:00 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  of just rocks to nest on. I guess it's nice to have some wind-breaks that far south. They use grass to make their nests. Further south the

  Posted February 22, 2018 8:03 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  penguins use pebbles - which you might have seen in lots of programmes and pictures of Gentoo penguins 😃

  Posted February 22, 2018 8:04 PM