🐧Endangered🐧 Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi)🐦🦜🕊️🎵❤️

1⃣The northern rockhopper penguin, Moseley's rockhopper penguin, or Moseley's penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) is a penguin species native to the southern Indian and Atlantic Oceans. It is described as distinct from the southern rockhopper penguin.

2⃣A study published in 2009 showed that the population of the northern rockhopper had declined by 90% since the 1950s. For this reason, the northern rockhopper penguin is classified as endangered.

3⃣More than 99% of northern rockhoppers breed during late spring or early summer on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island in the south Atlantic Ocean. Breeding colonies are also found on the French Southern and Antarctic Lands of Amsterdam Island and St Paul Island.

4⃣Northern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes moseleyi has most recently been assessed for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2020. Eudyptes moseleyi is listed as Endangered under criteria A2acde+3cde+4acde.🐧

a closeup of their feet... 🧐

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A real life Rocky Bird 😁

All I hear is Robin Williams when I see these little guys.

are these the pelicans trump levied tariffs on?