Map of the Ross Sea with a few colorful dots showing the locations of a few emperor penguins.
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is an update on the last two weeks' worth of penguin tracks. I'd guess Mr. Pingu, Sparkles, Juju and Golden Princess have lost their tags, which are now just sitting on the ice after the birds molted.
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A chinstrap penguin feeds its chick. The chick's entire head is in the adult's mouth. Another penguin looks away from the camera, disinterested entirely.
This #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD isn't of a chinstrap penguin eating its chick. In fact it's the other way around, the chick is getting a nice, regurgitated meal, very likely a bunch of krill. The Southern Ocean truly hosts the finest dining experiences for its inhabitants.
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Chinstrap penguins walk toward and away from the camera on a dirty area of snow
To and fro, to and fro
That's the #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD, some chinstrap penguins walking along their highway to and from the ocean at Deception Island. I can still hear the adorable "pat pat pat" of their little feet as they move along in their respective missions.🧪🌍🦑🦉
A gentoo penguin with its mouth open, looking like it is screaming at something but there is nothing there except the ocean in the background and a rock in the foreground.
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is a gentoo penguin, screaming at a rock. We can all relate.
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A chinstrap penguin and its fluffy, silver chick stand at their nest in the colony.
My second favorite species of penguin chick is the chinstrap penguin because of their incredibly beautiful silver fluff. That's a technical term. Also, they look very innocent but I doubt it's true.
Anyway, here's to hoping this #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD helps in some way.
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Not enough penguin pics on bsky. This should help, but I'm going to need everyone to do better. #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD
Close up of the head of an emperor penguin
The internet needs more #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD I think, so here's a closeup of an emperor penguin, looking especially unimpressed by me, an odd-looking, odd-moving penguin taking its picture.
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A small part of an emperor penguin colony, with dozens of fluffy grey chicks and several adults in attendance on the ice.
To any potential reviewers: when I publish our emperor penguin tracks I want you to know that kids gave our penguins names like Big Mac Turbo 2000, Sparkles, & Golden Princess. And they will, nonnegotiably, be referred to as such in the paper. Thank you for understanding.
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Two adult Adelie penguins surrounded by rocks. They are fighting, the one on the right is biting the other penguin in the chest.
Recently someone on here mentioned penguins fighting and I said it is rough and they can be really mean to each other and so that inspired the #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD, two Adélie penguins fighting.
Well, or one biting and the other one trying (unsuccessfully) to avoid being bit.
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A molting little penguin in a nest box
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is one of the saddest-looking penguins I have ever seen, a little penguin at the height of its molt a few days ago.
This is a sensitive time for them so we keep disturbances minimal (<15 sec). Whispering, photo/RFID read only, then walk away quietly.
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Nine king penguins preening or sleeping on the grass of the Falkland Islands while sheep graze in the background
King penguins preening, loafing and probably sleeping is today's #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD. King penguins are the second largest penguin species alive today, but still only about half the size of the largest, the emperor.
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A black and white Magellanic penguin stands on the grass on a cloudy day
A Magellanic penguin is today's #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD, which live in burrows in proximity to sheep (at least they were in the Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas)... a fact that, upon observation, caused me to do a double take.
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A large group of king penguins
Our #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of a group of king penguins in the Falkland Islands, a bunch of parents, in fact, raising their chicks. I saw these guys for the first time in January 2018 with @grantshat.bsky.social and what a blast we had counting them and watching them just be penguins.
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Rockhopper adults and chicks with a couple blackbrowed albatross chicks on the left side
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of some southern rockhopper penguins, which are aptly named, at Steeple Jason in the Falkland Islands. Here they coexist with one of the largest black-browed albatross colonies in the world.
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A map of the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean with multiple, colored tracks that show where emperor penguins have been swimming since mid-November (they have moved from left to right, from Cape Crozier and into the Amundsen Sea).
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of 10 emperor penguin tracks - an update on our research! This is where the birds have gone since November: >1000 km, in some cases, from where they started. What's even better is three of the birds seem to have found each other after all that way.
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Two downy little penguin chicks in a nest box. They are amazingly adorable.
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of… little penguins! Well, they are little penguin chicks. Little little penguins, as it were. Anyway, they are a few weeks old right now, and we’re pretty docile when we opened up their home to inspect today.
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Dozens of Adelie penguins swimming and porpoising out of the water in Antarctica, with an ice shelf and an iceberg in the background.
Happy New Year, Bluesky! The first #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD for 2025 is a group of perfectly porpoising Adélie penguins off the coast of Paulet Island, a memorable trip to the ice on the National Geographic Explorer with Lindblad Expeditions.
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Four emperor penguins on the ice, the one on the left is very close and the other three are father in the background.
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is a couple of emperor penguins standing in the evening sun at Cape Crozier earlier this (austral) spring.
Crozier is beautiful but harsh and unforgiving. It’s an amazing place.
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A chinstrap penguin is stretched out with its head in the air and it's flippers outward. Other penguins, including a dirty chick, are surrounding it, completely unbothered. The ocean is in the background.
Changing it up a bit for the #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD, with a brushtail penguin (in genus Pygoscelis), specifically a chinstrap penguin who is asking "look at me, love me, won't you?!"
Also. Look at that chick. Need I say more.
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An emperor penguin walks toward the camera on the sea ice with an ice shelf in the background
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is an emperor penguin that came strolling past me as I laid quietly on the ice and watched it just be a penguin. Which includes being curious, a bit wary, but mostly seemingly unbothered. By anything really.
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Image of an Adélie penguin colony from a distance. The sea ice is in the background and the lighter areas on rock represent the Adélie penguin nests.
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is from a remote camera we had installed at Cape Crozier this year. Look at all those Adélie penguins, just LOOK AT THEM. Image is from ~Oct 25 or so, and they are already back and happily pairing up and probably stealing rocks from each other.
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Image Alec Dempster
A bright sunny day in Antarctica with emperor penguins as far as you can see in the distance with white snow in the foreground
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is from last year right around this time when I was at Atka Bay with the emperor penguins there. This colony moved substantially in the couple of weeks I was there.
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A trio of Emperor Penguins captured at Snow hill, Antarctica Peninsula.
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#penguin #travel #ice
A line of Adelie penguins walking from left to right along a thick piece of snow/ice with water in the foreground and more snow in the background
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is a line of Adélie penguins at Hope Bay, from 2013. Here we wanted to count all the birds, and ended up doing so by taking photos, which we later stitched together, from a zodiac.
I also had a penguin in my boat for a bit, which surprised everyone involved.
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Three women are focused on a little penguin in its nest box, one woman is holding the box open, one is taking a picture and one is holding a microchip reader
Today’s #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is going to the other end of the size (and fierceness!) spectrum and highlighting a little blue penguin, in its nest box, part of a long-term study. They are small but they are mighty.
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A black and white photo of a group of 10 emperor penguins standing in the ice with a large hill in the background
I have too many emperor penguin pictures for #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD
no wait that’s not true
its not possible
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Two Adélie penguins on the snow and ice, one is laying down and the other is standing up stretching out.
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is this Adélie penguin streeeeeetching out while it’s buddy seems to either look on or not care. Or both. Very on brand regardless.
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Two emperor penguins standing next to each other on the sea ice with the Ross Ice Shelf in the background
Our #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD
is more emperor penguins, this time a couple that made it over to our camp for a bit of a visit in the beautiful evening sun
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Map of the Southern Ross Sea, with multi-colored lines and dots that represent the tracks of emperor penguins swimming in the ocean over the past ~20 days.
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD today, rather than a literal picture of a penguin, is a bunch of emperor penguin tracks from the birds we tagged at Crozier in November. Most seem to be returning to the colony but the one named Harry headed for the hills, so to speak.
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Eleven emperor penguins march in a line to the ocean on the ice, with land and the Adélie penguin colony in the distance.
Another #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD of some emperor penguins making their way to the ocean at Cape Crozier, with a massive Adélie penguin colony in the background. Crozier is such a special place.
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