For wildlife close encounters in one of the world’s remotest places, there’s nowhere like South Georgia, says Mark Stratton ...

The local settlers rebelled and killed him, and a year later the British landed on the islands and restored their colony. King Penguin, Falkland Islands. Author - Mone Loe. During World War I, a naval ...

This is the largest Magellanic penguin colony in ... If you're after King penguins without heading all the way to Antarctica, Volunteer Point is a must. Located on East Falkland, it's home to ...

January 7, 2015, Falkland Islands -- The weather finally caught us ... I led a bird walk with Steve Bailey, meandering through a Rockhopper Penguin and Imperial Shag colony, all during intermittent ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an evolutionary urge to reach beyond their boundaries. Today, many are ...

Standing in the sand was an injured king penguin, the species closest to emperor penguins, who seemed to be lost. King penguins are adapted to cold temperatures and inhabit mostly subantarctic ...

The Falkland Islands ... with five species including King, Southern Rockhopper and Gentoo. Meanwhile, Tristan da Cunha, arguably the UK’s most remote overseas territory, is home to the endangered ...

At this time of year - the South Atlantic summer - the penguins of the Falkland Islands mob together ... the Falklands is home to its largest colony of king penguins. Up to a metre tall, they ...

Pico, whose name means “beak” in Spanish, honors the penguin’s South American roots, while Douglas is named after a settlement on East Falkland ... penguins in the colony, the Shedd Aquarium ...

His efforts were rewarded when he found a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus ... “It’s one out of a colony of hundreds of thousands of penguins that has this colour morph.” ...

Feather DNA testing revealed that the 10-year-old penguin was male after zookeepers observed unexpected mating habits with another penguin named Frank Getty A British wildlife park is down to only ...