Adelie+Penguin

[[image:2007BL0000.jpg width="133" height="200" align="left"]]ADELIE PENGUIN
pyogscelis adeliae

contributed by Eric11 and Haley11

Each penguin is 60 to 70 cm long and around 4 kg in weight. Distinctive marks are the white ring surrounding the eye and the feathers at the base of the bill. These long feathers hide most of the red bill. The tail is a little bit longer than other penguins' tails.

Adelie penguins arrive at their breeding grounds inOctober. Their nests consist of stones piled together. Sometimes the competition for breedingsites gets so fierce that mothers will steal stones from neighbours' nests! The males summon thefemales with a low guttural noise followed by a loud cry. A female typically lays two eggs whichare brown or green in color. In December, the warmest month in Antarctica (about -2°C), theparents alternate periods of incubating the egg; one goes to feed and the other stays to warmthe egg. The parent who is incubating does not eat. In March, the adults and their young returnto the sea.

[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelie_PenguinAdélie] SIZE

About 30inches tall. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/163.shtml DIET

Fish and Krill. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/163.shtml POPULATION

2.5 million pairs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/163.shtml LIFE SPAN

Adelie penguin's averige lifespan is 15 to 20 years old. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/163.shtml Habitat

Adelie penguins need the cold weather because they mostly live on ice shelfs not cold no ice no penguins. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/163.shtml Range: Coastal Antarctica http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/163.shtml

Offspring: within two days of laying, chicks within five days of hatching, chicks 11-15 days of age and chicks 17-21 days of age. Our results show that Adélie Penguins have no innate mechanism for recognition of offspring. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU9890155.htm

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Adelies leave the colony in late March to spend the winter offshore. They have a white ring around the eye.Their chicks grow the fastest of all penguins.Adelies build their nests of pebbles on the rocky beaches of Antarctica. Adelie penguins are mostly found on iceshelfs close to the water.They don't drink water but eat snow. They have a gland in their nose thattakes the salt out of the ocean water that they swallow when catching fish and eating fish while inthe water.

[|http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/adelie.html]


 * === === || ==Penguins of the====Antarctic Region==[[image:http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/images/antmap2.gif link="http://www.siec.k12.in.us/%7Ewest/proj/penguins/antarc.html"]] **Antarctic Continent** [[image:http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/images/bluedot.gif link="http://www.siec.k12.in.us/%7Ewest/proj/penguins/emperor.html"]] [|Emperor Penguins] [[image:http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/images/reddot.gif link="http://www.siec.k12.in.us/%7Ewest/proj/penguins/adelie.html"]] [|] [|Adelie Penguins] [[image:http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/images/golddot.gif link="http://www.siec.k12.in.us/%7Ewest/proj/penguins/gentoo2.html"]] [|Gentoo Penguins] [[image:http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/images/purdot.gif link="http://www.siec.k12.in.us/%7Ewest/proj/penguins/chinstrap.html"]] [| Chinstrap Penguin] **[|http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/antarc.html]** ||

More Links:

http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/Penguins.html#Adelie http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/thumbnails/penguins/penguin_pictures_thumbnails_p1_adelie.htm