Yellow+Eyed+Penguins+REPORT

**Description** **Yellow-Eyed Penguins are birds that are about 75cm and **    **weighs up to 6.3kgs-8kgs The size of the bird is 65-68cm. **    It has a pale yellow head, black feathers and a throat and a     <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">chin that is brownish-blackish there is also bright yellow strip  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">running around from there eye to the  **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">back of there head. **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The penguins and the chicks are very different and they all **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">look very different the adult usually have two eggs. **  **Where they live:** **Yellow-Eyed Penguins live forest and Scrub lands. There** **nests are made of sticks and coarse grass, built against** **solid things such as rocks tree trucks shaded areas for** **shelter from the heat of the sun or flax plants.** **It is found in New Zealand on the south-east coast of the** ** south island.** **Colonies on the Otago Peninsula are a popular tourist venue,** **where visitors may closely observe penguins from hides,** **trenches or tunnels.** **Chicks and eggs:** **Two eggs are laid in the mid-September to the mid-** **October. Eggs are green at first then they turn white** ** after a while.** **The egg size is 75mm-54mm. After hatching one parent** ** stays with the chick well the other goes out to see to get** **food for the chick.**

<span style="font-size: 180%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Food: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Yellow-eyed penguins can travel up to 15 km <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">from shore to feeding places <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">They may travel up to 30km daily. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> For food there are 5 main species of fish: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Red Cod, Opal Fish, sprat, Silversides and ** ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Blue Cod. They also eat squid. **

breeding: <span style="font-size: 190%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> While they can be seen coming ashore in groups of 4-6 or more individuals then disperse along track to individual nests sites out of sight of each other. New Zealand penguin workers is that it is preferable to use habitat rather than colony to refer to areas where yellow-eyed penguins nest. <span style="font-size: 190%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">