Two female King penguins arrived last week at Birdland Park ... through a period of quarantine before they join the rest of the colony.

A 2018 study that analyzed the remains of an ancient “super colony” of the birds suggests there may have been a “penguin optimum” climate window between about 4,000 and 2,000 years ago ...

The conclusion is the result of measurements taken by scientists downwind of a colony of Adelie penguins in Antarctica in 2023. It's a complex chemical process, which goes something like this ...

When the breeze blew from a 60,000-strong Adelie penguin colony eight kilometers (five miles) away, atmospheric ammonia spiked to 13.5 parts per billion—about a thousand times the background level.

Near Argentina’s Marambio station on the Antarctic peninsula, the snow and soil are frequently blanketed with excrement from a nearby breeding colony of Adélie penguins. Matthew Boyer ...

When the breeze blew from a 60,000-strong Adelie penguin colony eight kilometers (five miles) away, atmospheric ammonia spiked to 13.5 parts per billion -- about a thousand times the background level.

The conclusion is the result of measurements taken by scientists downwind of a colony of Adelie penguins in Antarctica in 2023. It's a complex chemical process, which goes something like this: Along ...

Standing out among these wildlife options are the rookeries of the five different species of penguins in the Falkland Islands, King, Gentoo, Magellanic, Southern Rockhopper and Macaroni.

because the penguin guano left at the colony site still emitted the gas. “The most surprising part for me was the strength of ammonia emissions from the penguin guano for a month after the ...

When the breeze blew from a 60,000-strong Adelie penguin colony eight kilometers (five miles) away, atmospheric ammonia spiked to 13.5 ?parts per billion — about a thousand times the background ...

When the breeze blew from a 60,000-strong Adelie penguin colony eight kilometers (five miles) away, atmospheric ammonia spiked to 13.5 parts per billion – about a thousand times the background ...

The smell of ammonia is quite distinct when in the proximity of penguin colonies, Boyer said. The researchers spent two months from January to March 2023 measuring the concentration of ammonia in the ...