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SeaWorld Orlando’s Antarctica Welcomes First Penguin Chick

4 The Love Of Animals

On November 30, SeaWorld Orlando welcomed the first chick to hatch at Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, the all-new attraction featuring a colony of more than 250 penguins from four species – king, Adelie, gentoo and rockhopper. Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin transports guests into the icy world of the penguin like never before.

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50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya review

10,000 Birds

Catherine Ngarachu’s “50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya” (published by Penguin Random House South Africa) is the first detailed guide to the country’s best birding sites. Among the many options, there are shorter highlight guides, as well as various wildlife-watching safari guides. Each site gets from 2 to 5 pages (but mostly 3-4).

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Scooter the Penguin

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The BK Crown TM/MC Program at BURGER KING in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), gave children the opportunity to name a one year-old male, black-footed penguin residing at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn. What a fun way to get children involved and caring about wildlife!

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Unlucky Ducks, Lucky Penguins, and Good-Luck Ostriches

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Duck hunters and wildlife officials alike worry that the spill will affect both hunting season and migration. While penguins who live in Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium don’t have to worry about oil spills or other environmental disasters, they have problems of their own. Or, as penguins do, waddle.) The end result?

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Penguins, Parrots and Wine on Matiu / Somes Island

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As I have explained before these islands are the best place for a lot of the birding here because they are more easily protected from introduced mammals which wreck such havoc on the wildlife here. Since 1984 it has been planted with native bush and pests were controlled, and is now used as a wildlife reserve. I’ll work on that.

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Bush Proposes Penguin Protection, Hell Freezes Over

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The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list six species of penguin as threatened species and one _ the African penguin _ as an endangered species. Tags: bush penguins endangered species.

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Uganda’s Billion Dollar Bird: The Shoebill

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Penguins are, obviously, penguins, which makes them awesome. The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. Not all birds are created equal. The Resplendent Quetzal boasts a tail so long that people travel the world to admire it. Malachite Kingfisher.

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