Profile
In flight
Penguins
Emperor Penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
- common
- 16 km/h
- Starter
- Endangered
Marches through blizzards to deliver your messages. The ultimate cold-weather courier.
- Population
- roughly 256,000 breeding pairs (~500,000 mature individuals), declining
- Habitat
- Antarctic pack ice and fast ice, foraging in adjacent open ocean
- Fun fact
- The only bird that breeds through the Antarctic winter — males incubate a single egg on their feet under a brood pouch for about two months in temperatures as low as -60°C without eating.
- Range
- circumpolar coastal Antarctica, breeding on stable sea ice
- Diet
- fish (especially Antarctic silverfish), krill, and squid
- Size
- 1.15 m
- Lifespan
- 20 years
