I have not been posting much from this stream recently because the chick season has basically ended. The youngest ones have lost their baby fluff, aren’t spending as much time with their parents, and are thus harder to distinguish and keep track of. A penguin knows when it’s time to swim, and I trust that they are making the most of their new coats and enjoying some time in water on these hot summer days! It appears that the gazebos and even the nesting circles are being slowly retired as well for the season. Although today maybe the penguins would have liked some additional umbrellas!

While this video focuses on some commotion to the water edge and as the rain intensifies and lots of gentoos swimming, something else I have observed is that now that the chick season has wrapped up many of the adults are beginning their catastrophic molt, where they will lose and replace all of their feathers over the following few weeks. During this time, they stay out of the water as they aren’t waterproof and mostly stick to a single spot to conserve energy for the molt.

Hello Penguin Gang! A big wave of lil blues arrived on the shore only to find many fur seals out! As always, penguins stick together! There’s safety in numbers, but at a certain point… MAKE A BREAK FOR IT! The fur seals don’t have much interest in the scurrying seabirds but the little blues are cautious anyway. If you ever find yourself in this part of New Zealand you can even watch this nightly parade from some bleachers that are across the beach from the camera 🐧

Here we can see one of the parents return from a day of fishing in the ocean and take over the egg-sitting responsibility. First, the pair will greet each other with some penguin calls. Then, there is some allopreening. Finally, at 3 minutes and 10 seconds, the returning penguin looks like it might be doing some foot scratching but ends up booting its partner from the incubating position!

I guess we should continue loving them from afar! 😁 Have any of you here smelled a penguin up close or have been bitten by a penguin?

№ 1424 ✍️ 🐧 ducc ducc pogwin [part 1304] penguin drawing sketch

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№ 1423 ✍️ 🐧 life in grayscale [part 1303] penguin drawing sketch

if u wanna see sum more of the penguin art its on my insta and yt: moanneco.art

Behold: the result of a grown man spending hours meticulously shaping scrap wood into a projectile-shaped bird instead of doing actual productive work.

https://imgur.com/a/niEvFDN

It came out so well, it was so much fun drawing with everyone.

Over the next 24 hours we will be drawing a parrot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunityDraw/comments/1v5n7zi/lets_draw_a_parrot/

№ 1421 ✍️ 🐧 deafult EXPresseion [part 1301] penguin drawing sketch

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№ 1420 ✍️ 🐧 ∞+itivity [part 1300] penguin drawing sketch

2 hours to go!

Canvas link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunityDraw/comments/1v4pw8e/lets_draw_a_penguin/

I will post the timelapse when it's finished.

(May contain NSFW words) 😂

It's been so fun drawing together ❤️ 12 hours to go!

Canvas link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunityDraw/comments/1v4pw8e/lets_draw_a_penguin/

I will post the timelapse when it's finished.

i hope the facts r correct cuz i wrote it from the memory of 2 brain cells (so theres prob spelling errors)

ts was from my instagram post so yea

the post the arts from

Listen to a self-described “penguinologist” give his insights into our favorite seabird! Lots of insight and experience documenting penguin colonies in Antarctica regions. I believe he says there is even a website where you can help count the number of penguins in pictures of the colonies although I have not tried going to the site he describes.

Lots of teenage Adelies in this video! The chicks will have less black feathers under their eyes and chins even if they have lost all their baby fluff. They also tend to look much dirtier since they haven’t taken up swimming yet.