PUNK A moulting yellow eyed penguin looks a picture of attitude at Penguin Place, a private conservation reserve.
PUNK moulting yellow eyed penguin looks a picture of attitude at Penguin Place, a private conservation reserve on the Otago Peninsular, Dunedin, New Zealand. .The penguin, in the last stages of moulting is unable to reach the feathers on it's head while grooming so the feathers Eyed Penguins are the worlds most endangered penguin and live only in south east areas of New Yellow Eyed Penguin Reserve at Penguin Place on the Otago Peninsular offers visitors the opportunity to visit a working conservation programme and to experience and photograph undisturbed penguin activity at close range through a unique system of hides and covered tunnels. The reserve is a private conservation effort to save one of the world's most endangered penguins from extinction. This funding provides habitat restoration, predator control, a research programme and on-site rehabilitation care, for the sick, starving and wounded. The reserve is funded entirely through the profits from the Penguin Place tour operation. .. The Yellow Eyes Penguin usually nests in native forest or scrub and do not nest within visual sight of each Place is dedicated in helping the endangered species survive. The project is entirely funded by the guided tours. This funding provides habitat restoration, predator control, a research programme and on-site rehabilitation care, for the sick, starving and wounded. Estimates put the number of Yellow Eyed Penguins left in the world at between 3000-7000.
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Location: Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
Photo credit: © Ben Lewis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: beach, bird, dunedin, endangered, extinct, eyed, orago, otago, penguin, penguin., peninsular, place, species, yellow, zealand
