Scientific name:
Pygoscelis adeliae

Natural spread:
Antarctica

the Adeliepinguin lives also like the emperor-penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) at the farthest south of all penguin-types. Preferably on the antarctic mainland, but also on offshore islands, it meets to large colonies during the antarctic summer. it is rather frequent at the entire antarctic coast.

Physique With a length of 60-70 cm, Adeliepinguine gain a weight up to 5 kg. Notably, a white skin-ring is befiederte beak-root strongly opposite other penguin-types about the eyes and them. it lets the red beak appear quite shortly. The tail-feathers are somewhat bent and relatively longer as with the big-penguins.

Reproduction From middle of Octobers, the pairs like about its hatcheries one, that it retain with big Ortstreue over several years away. These lie in rocky terrain where the birds put its nests together from smaller stones. With a month-means of -0,5 °C of -2,5 °C, December is the warmest month of the southern polar-summer. Only rarely, the day-temperature rises over the Gefrierpunkt. While the females come back into the sea after the deposit of the eggs soon, the males begin with the brood-business. Only at this different behavior, the parents are to be held apart. After approximately 36 days, in which the male broods without eating continuously, the boys slip. they become independent after 8-9 weeks if its main-food, the Krill (light-cancers), is amply existing.

From end February to middle of March, the alto-birds molt and come back into the open sea, where they often are found up to 1000 km of the coast off.