Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Sphenisciformes > Spheniscidae > Eudyptes > Eudyptes chrysocomeEudyptes chrysocome (Rockhopper Penguin)Synonyms: Aptenodytes chrysocome (homotypic); Aptenodytes crestata; Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome; Eudyptes crestatus The southern rockhopper penguin group (Eudyptes chrysocome), are two subspecies of rockhopper penguin, that together are sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.37568 EDGE Score: 3.51163 |
Clutch Size [3] | 2 | Clutches / Year [2] | 1 | Egg Length [2] | 2.795 inches (71 mm) | Egg Width [2] | 2.126 inches (54 mm) | Fledging [2] | 70 days | Incubation [5] | 33 days | Mating Display [3] | Ground display | Mating System [3] | Monogamy | Migration [1] | Intraoceanic | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 20 inches (52 cm) | Speed [6] | 5.033 MPH (2.25 m/s) | Water Biome [1] | Coastal |  | Adult Weight [2] | 5.445 lbs (2.47 kg) | Birth Weight [3] | 95.8 grams |  | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | Diet - Fish [4] | 30 % | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 70 % | Forages - Underwater [4] | 100 % |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands |
France |
Afrotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra |
Australia, New Zealand |
Australasia |
Tundra |
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Magellanic subpolar forests |
Chile, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Patagonian steppe |
Chile, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Scotia Sea Islands tundra |
United Kingdom |
Antarctic |
Tundra |
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Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra |
South Africa, France, Australia |
Antarctic |
Tundra |
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Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands |
United Kingdom |
Afrotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Beauchêne Island |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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Bird Island |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Bleaker Island Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4i |
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Gough Island |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Heard and McDonald Islands |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (to Australia) |
A1, A4ii, A4iii |
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Hope Harbour, West Falkland |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Hummock Island Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A4i |
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Île aux Cochons |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île de l'Est |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île de la Possession |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Îles Nuageuses and Île Clugny |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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Inaccessible Island |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Isla de los Estados, Islas de Año Nuevo e islotes adyacentes |
Argentina |
A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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Jason Islands Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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Keppel Island |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2 |
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Kidney Island Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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New Island Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Nightingale Island group |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Passage Islands Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2 |
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Pebble Island Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4iii |
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Península Mitre |
Argentina |
A1, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Prince Edward Islands Special Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Ría Deseado e islas adyacentes |
Argentina |
A1, A4ii, A4iii |
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Saunders Island |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Sea Lion Islands Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2 |
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Seal Bay, East Falkland |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4iii |
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Tristan da Cunha |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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West Point Island Group |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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Species |
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New Zealand |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 6TRAVELING SPEED AND FORAGING RANGE OF MACARONI AND ROCKHOPPER PENGUINS AT MARION ISLAND, CHRISTOPHER R. BROWN, J. Field Ornithol., 58(2):118-125 ♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 8Geographic variation in the foraging behaviour, diet and chick growth of rockhopper penguins, Yann Tremblay, Yves Cherel, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 251: 279297, 2003 ♦ 9THE DIETS AND DIETARY SEGREGATION OF SEABIRDS AT THE SUBANTARCTIC CROZET ISLANDS, VINCENT RIDOUX, MARINE ORNITHOLOGY Vol. 22 No. 1 1994 ♦ 10Amphipod-based food web: Themisto gaudichaudii caught in nets and by seabirds in Kerguelen waters, southern Indian Ocean, Pierrick Bocher, Yves Cherel, Jean-Philippe Labat, Patrick Mayzaud, Suzanne Razouls, Pierre Jouventin, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 223: 261276, 2001 ♦ 11Population growth and density, diet and breeding success of striated caracaras Phalcoboenus australis on New Island, Falkland Islands, Paulo Catry, Miguel Lecoq, Ian J. Strange, Polar Biology Volume 31, Number 10, 1167-1174 ♦ 12Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 ♦ 13Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 14International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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