Adult (Western) © Andres Vasquez Noboa eBird S155870898 Macaulay Library ML 612763755
Adult (Eastern) © Paul Budde
Adult (Western) © Andres Vasquez Noboa
Adult (Eastern) © Peter Kaestner
Adult (Western) © Brian Sullivan
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Adult (Western) © Noah Strycker
Adult (Western) © Robert Lewis
Adult (Western) © Heidi Krajewsky
Adult (Western) © Santiago Imberti

kalliotöyhtöpingviini Eudyptes chrysocome

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Identification

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The smallest of the crested penguins. Note the thin yellow eyebrows that, once past the eyes, flare out toward the rear of the head. The species consists of two subspecies, the Eastern and Western Rockhopper Penguins. The Western Rockhopper Penguin breeds on offshore islands off southern Chile and Argentina and on the Falkland Islands, while the Eastern Rockhopper Penguin breeds on various subantarctic islands around New Zealand and the southern Indian Ocean. The Eastern has even eyebrows with pink skin at the base of the bill; the Western has black skin at the base of the bill, with an uneven eyebrow shape. Vagrants occasionally reach the Snares Islands. Distinguished from Snares Penguin by thinner eyebrow and smaller bill, and from Moseley’s Rockhopper Penguin by shorter, less flowing crest.

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