A 10-year-old King Penguin in Birdland Park and Garden was renamed from Maggie into Magnus after a feather DNA Test revealed that the penguin is a male. The penguin was subjected to a feather DNA ...

King penguins do not build nests. In their constricted space, the male and female take turns incubating a single egg balanced on their feet and covered by a loose fold of skin. They brood the ...

For four years, keepers at Birdland Park and Gardens waited patiently for Maggie, their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg. She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating ...

His efforts were rewarded when he found a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) like no other he’d seen before, one with black feathers all over its body. “Melanism is something that occurs ...

Suspicions grew after "Maggie's" unexpected behaviour with a fellow male king penguin. When Flop's mother died and she lost the strength to stand, Dudley Zoo taught her to walk. The naturalist and ...

So to identify an individual, or even a male from a female ... like this has been seen before in their close relatives, king penguins, but it is extremely rare in an emperor penguin.

King penguins in the Falklands only bread twice ... and they start to hatch from the end of December until March. Both male and female take turns sitting on the egg or looking after the chicks.

As the Falkland Islands are a mere 750 miles of the nearest point of Antarctica, it is here where many penguin species make their home. Featured on the first coin appropriately, is the King ...