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Pygoscelis papua
The third largest penguin species in the world. I got some better photos, which I will upload later. The penguins we saw in the sea ice were mainly chinstraps, but I found one gentoo! (The one on the left, on the right is a chinstrap)
Antarctic sea ice, lives out at sea mainly
Classed as Near Threatened by CITES
Spotted on Mar 21, 2013
Submitted on Mar 21, 2013
4 Comments
So wonderful that you were able to photograph these species!
Marvelous!
Thanks Gerardo!
Wonderful :)