Erect-crested Penguin

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When to see the Erect-crested Penguin

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Erect-crested Penguin

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia, Argentina, Falkland Islands.

About the Erect-crested Penguin

The erect-crested penguin is a penguin endemic to the New Zealand region and only breeds on the Bounty and Antipodes Islands. It has black upper parts, white underparts and a yellow eye stripe and crest. It spends the winter at sea and little is known about its biology and breeding habits. Populations are believed to have declined during the last few decades of the twentieth century, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as being "endangered".

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Easily confused with

Snares PenguinEudyptes robustusThe Snares penguin is often compared to the Fiordland penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), which is related by the genus of crested penguins (Eudyptes). Northern Rockhopper PenguinEudyptes moseleyiThe northern rockhopper penguin, also known as Moseley's rockhopper penguin, Moseley's penguin, or Tristan penguin, is a penguin species native to the southern Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Eastern Rockhopper PenguinEudyptes filholiThe eastern rockhopper penguin is a small, crested penguin with a black back and throat, a white belly, and pink feet.