Frozen mass known as A23a threatens penguin and seal colonies on South Georgia and is expected to make contact in two to four weeks ...

A female king penguin in Britain’s only breeding colony for the species is actually a male, keepers have discovered after eight years. The true sex of Maggie, now known as Magnus, was uncovered ...

A colony of King penguins in South Georgia The government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands has reported that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has now been confirmed from 23 ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures in a fifth of the continent’s emperor penguin colonies, according to a new study from the British Antarctic ...

King penguins have established colonies across seven islands and island ... Numbering an estimated 2.2 million pairs, the king penguin population is in good shape. Yet a recent study in the ...

The discovery of new emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica marks a significant advancement in wildlife research. Using satellite mapping technology, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) ...

Emperor colonies are spaced about 250km (155 miles) apart, on average Four new emperor penguin colonies have been identified in Antarctica from satellite imagery. It brings the number of known ...

Chinstrap penguins live in the largest penguin colonies on earth. A king penguin's feathers offer a waterproof and insulating layer to keep them warm. After a day's fishing, African penguins land ...

and today the penguin population on Macquarie Island numbers in the hundreds of thousands, many nesting in the shelter of rusting ‘digesters’ which boiled their forebears. The colonies are noisy and ...