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King Penguin chicks on muddy path to rookery, Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

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King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) are the second largest species of penguin and their largest colonies occur on the island of South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. They have to come to land to breed and to moult.

King Penguins have a prolonged breeding cycle and take 14-16 months from laying to fledging. Their brown fluffy chicks are known as “Oakum Boys” because their down looks like the oakum used by sailors to caulk the hulls of wooden boats.
Penguin rookeries become very muddy from melting snow, and smelly from the birds’ droppings. These chicks were moving down a muddy path towards the main section of the King Penguin rookery.

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