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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They breed in colonies scattered around the Antarctic continent (the number ranges from 60 to 70, and as Kooyman points out, the colonies can drastically change in size from year to year) on the ice (and one of the things I learned from this book is how many different kinds of ice there is in the Antarctic) in the darkest months of winter.

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African Penguins in Peril

10,000 Birds

An African Penguin peers protectively around its fluffy chick. The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. And I recently returned to my home-town to get reacquainted with these little beauties.

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