Northern Rockhopper Penguin

When to see the Northern Rockhopper Penguin

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Northern Rockhopper Penguin

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 2 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, South Africa.

About the Northern Rockhopper Penguin

The 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. It was formerly considered conspecific with the eastern and western rockhopper penguins.

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Easily confused with

Eastern Rockhopper PenguinEudyptes filholiThe eastern rockhopper penguin is a small, crested penguin with a black back and throat, a white belly, and pink feet. Erect-crested PenguinEudyptes sclateriThis is a small-to-medium-sized, yellow-crested, black-and-white penguin, at 50–70 cm (20–28 in) and weighing 2.5–6 kg (5.5–13.2 lb). Snares PenguinEudyptes robustusThe Snares penguin is often compared to the Fiordland penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), which is related by the genus of crested penguins (Eudyptes).