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southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) isolated on white

portrait of a Rockhopper Penguin

Rockhopper penguin

$Taxon name: Northern Rockhopper Penguin\nTaxon scientific name: Eudyptes moseleyi\nLocation: Tasmania, Australia$

Beautiful specimen in its natural environment

A Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome; protecting its newly-hatched chick, and an egg which is yet to hatch. Pebble Island, Falkland Islands.

Their common name refers to the fact that, unlike many other penguins which get around obstacles by sliding on their bellies or by awkward climbing using their flipper-like wings as aid, rockhoppers will try to jump over boulders and across cracks.

A Rockhopper penguin portrait in the rain.

Rockhoppers are distinguished from other crested penguins by their smaller size and by having only a thin yellow superscilium. The feather plumes are yellow, not orange as in Macaroni Penguin, and thinner than in the remaining Eudyptes species. The red eye is distinctive. Southern Rockhopper Penguins differ from their Northern counterparts in having a narrower supercilium and shorter plumes, which reach just over the black throat. Their vocalisations are also different. The Southern Rockhopper actually comprises two subspecies that have been described and can be identified in the field: the nominate form from South America and the Falkland Islands and the eastern subspecies filholi from the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands. The eastern form mainly differs from the nominate subspecies in having a pink line of fleshy skin along the lower mandible which is black in the nominate subspecies. Immature birds have only a narrow supercilium and a pale mottled grey chin. Identification of juveniles is difficult. Shape of the supercilium, bill shape, body size and underwing pattern can aid identification. Separation of juvenile Southern and Northern Rockhopper Penguins in the field is probably impossible.

The southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of rockhopper penguin that is sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America. West Point Island, Falkland Islands.

A rockhopper penguin swimming in an aquarium.

A Southern rockhopper penguin at one of the nesting sites on New Island, Falkland Islands

A Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, walking jauntily on rock on Sea Lion Island, a nature reserve in the Falkland Islands

Northern Rockhopper penguin close up

Cape Town, South Africa - A Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin. They are found along the shorelines of South Africa.

Rockhopper penguin Falkland Island, travel to Antarctica

The southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of rockhopper penguin that is sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America. West Point Island, Falkland Islands.

king penguins at the zoo

A Rockhopper penguin standing in the rain.

Southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) at zoo

A 6-9 month baby looking at a Rockhopper penguin.

A southern rockhopper penguin gathers a beak full of dried grasses to contribute to the year's nest. These small penguins are aptly named for their two-footed hopping from rook to rock, even up steep cliffsides.

Two Southern Rockhopper Penguins, Eudyptes chrysocome, at the edge of a rock on the coastline of Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands, with the South Atlantic Ocean behind them. Shallow dof; focus is on front bird.

Penguin with an angry expression

The southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of rockhopper penguin that is sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America. West Point Island, Falkland Islands.

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi), also known as Moseleys rockhopper penguin, or Moseley's penguin

Penguins swimming in the water

A species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula.

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