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	Royal Penguin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) inhabits the waters surrounding Antarctica.
		Royal penguins breed only on Macquarie Island and, like other penguins, spend much of their time at sea, where they are assumed to be pelagic.
		Royal Penguins are not considered threatened; historically they were harvested for their oil, between 1870 and 1919 the government of Tasmania issuing licences for hunting them, with an average 150,000 penguins (both Royal and King) being taken each year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Penguin (366 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Royal penguins
		Royal penguins are one species of the crested penguin group (genus called Eudyptes), so named for their yellow crest on their heads.
		Royal penguins have a white chin and macaroni penguins have a fl chin.
		Royal penguins are migratory, leaving Macquarie Island after the breeding season It is unknown where they go during this time, although there have been sightings from Tasmania to the Antarctic sector of the Southen Ocean.
	www-aadc.aad.gov.au /ten_facts/penguins/royal.asp (553 words)

	Royal Penguin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Royal penguins can be 26 to 30 inches (66 to 76cm) tall.
		Royal penguins are found near the Macquarie Islands, Campbell Islands and New Zealand.
		Royal penguins are one of the crested penguins also they are the only penguins to have white cheeks and throat.
	www.geocities.com /penguins_are_back/royal.htm (244 words)

	Royal Penguins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Royal penguins are found only on the rocky Macquarie Island located far to the south of Australia in the Pacific.
		Royals along with the Macaroni penguins are the largest of the crested penguins.
		The Royals are slightly larger and have white feathers on the cheeks and under their chins on the throat.
	www.siec.k12.in.us /~west/proj/penguins/royal.html (284 words)

	Royal Penguins
		Royal penguins could only be confused with Macaroni penguins.
		Macaronis and Royals are the largest of the crested penguins and both have orange yellow and fl crests that join on the top of the head.
		Royal penguins are significantly larger than Macaroni penguins and, according to Eric Woehler, it would be impossible to mistake a Royal with a dark face for a Macaroni if they were seen side by side.
	www.adelie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /species_notes/royal.htm (307 words)

	HMAS Penguin (Royal Australian Navy)
		Penguin is also close to many of the sights and sounds of Sydney including Manly Beach and Taronga Park Zoo.
		Penguin is also home to the Balmoral Naval Hospital, the Navy's principal medical facility, and provides trained personnel for the Primary Casualty Receiving Facilities embarked in the Navy's amphibious training ships, HMAS Kanimbla and HMAS Manoora.
		Penguin is a part of Mosman and, together, we celebrate sixty years of continuing service.
	www.navy.gov.au /establishments/penguin (302 words)

	Royal Penguins - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Royal penguins have a highly synchronized breeding cycle beginning when the males arrive in late September to claim nest sites.
		Royal penguins breed only on Macquarie Island, in large, dense colonies on tussock-covered slopes of scree and beach.
		Royal penguins eat crustaceans (mostly krill), fish and squid caught by pursuit-diving normally at depths of 50 to 150 feet.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/penguins/royal.shtml (451 words)

	Macaroni penguin
		The Royal Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus schlegeli) is treated as a subspecies of Macaroni Penguin here, but others accord the Royal penguin full species status.
		The distribution of Macaroni Penguin extends from the sub-Antarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula, but overall they are found further south than the rest of the crested penguins.
		Royal Penguins have been recorded, possibly breeding, on Heard, Kerguelen, Crozet Island, and Marion Island amongst dark-faced Macaroni Penguins and stragglers have been observed as far north as North Island, New Zealand.
	www.penguinworld.com /types/macaroni.html (401 words)

	WhaleTimes: Fishin' for Facts-Royal Penguin
		Royal penguins can be 26 to 30 inches tall.
		Royal penguins are one of the crested penguins.
		Royal penguins look very similar to "macaroni penguins." Like other penguins, royal penguins spend most of their life at sea.
	www.whaletimes.org /royalpeng.htm (153 words)

	Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Birds - Royal Penguin
		Some Royal Penguins start to breed at five years of age but most do not breed until they are eleven years old.
		Royal Penguins are fl and white diving birds that live in large colonies in Antarctica and surrounding islands.
		Royal Penguins dive under water during the day to look for crustaceans, small fish and squid.
	www.amonline.net.au /wild_kids/birds/royal_penguin.htm (260 words)

	Home Page
		The snow in the penguin rookeries was pink from the krill which is the main stable in their diet.
		The Fiordland Crested penguin is one of the most difficult to see because they are few in number and nest in hard to get places.
		Penguins are pelagic, flightless seabirds distributed in the cooler waters of the Southern Hemisphere.
	www.pkpenguins.com (1197 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Royal penguin
		Royal penguins can be confused with macaroni penguins, as both have fl and yellow crests on their head.
		Royal penguins are found in the southern hemisphere near the Macquarie and Campbell Islands to the south of New Zealand.
		Royal penguins are classified as Vulnerable by the 2000 Red List of Threatened Species.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/376.shtml (328 words)

	History - HMAS Penguin (Royal Australian Navy)
		The first Penguin was a composite sloop that first commissioned in the Royal Navy in 1877 and served on the Australia Station.
		It was commissioned as Penguin II on 14 July 1942 and, when Garden Island was renamed HMAS Kuttabul on 1 January 1943 - in memory of those killed on the ferry Kuttabul in the Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour - Penguin II became simply Penguin.
		On commissioning Penguin was the home of the Balmoral Naval Hospital and served as a convalescence centre and as base for the Fairmile B Motor Launches that patrolled Sydney Harbour.
	www.navy.gov.au /establishments/penguin/penguin_history.html (895 words)

	Royal Penguins
		Royal penguins' chins are white or pale gray, whereas macaroni penguins' are fl.
		Because there are a lot of similarities between the royal and the macaroni penguins, scientists used to consider the duo the same species.
		Besides the royal penguin, the king, the gentoo, and the rockhopper penguins also favor Macquarie Island as their breeding ground.
	www.edhelper.com /AnimalReadingComprehension_216_1.html (266 words)

	General Facts And Information on Penguins
		Some species of penguins live 75% of their lives at sea, coming to shore only to breed and molt.
		The penguin also keep their feathers well oiled with frequent preening and an oil gland at the base of the tail.
		Since the penguins are not waterproof while they are molting, they do not go to sea, and do not eat, during this time.
	www.eliasdesigns.com /penguins/general.htm (603 words)

	Brief Species Notes
		Royal penguins are sometimes regarded as a sub-species of Macaroni penguins with a white throat.
		Snares penguins are only found, as their name suggests, on the Snares Islands, which are some 300 miles south of New Zealand and are a protected Nature Reserve.
		Rockhopper penguins are perhaps the commonest of the crested penguins.
	www.adelie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /species_notes/PENGNOTE.htm (875 words)

	This is The North East \| CommuniGate \| Royal Penguins
		Royal penguins exist in a precarious state because they breed only on the Australian (Tasmanian) sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.
		When we saw the royals they were tame an unafraid of humans which is amazing in view of the cruel treatment their ancestors had experienced.
		The most heinous and shocking time in the royals’ history was the late 19th and early 20th Century when they were killed on a commercial scale for the oil contained in their plump little bodies.
	www.communigate.co.uk /ne/penguins/page11.phtml (878 words)

	Penguin Information
		The smallest penguin species is the Little Blue Penguin (also known as the Fairy Penguin), which is typically 35 to 40 cm tall and 1 kilogram.
		Diving penguins reach 6 to 12 km/h, though there are reports about velocities of 27 km/h (which are probably realistic in the case of precipitate flight).
		Magellanic penguins breed on the coast and offshore islands of Argentina, Chile and the Falkland islands in the cold temperate sub-Antarctic seas.
	www.junglewalk.com /info/Penguin-information.htm (1021 words)

	ROYAL PENGUIN
		The royal penguin are often confused with their close relative, the Macaroni Penguin.
		Royal penguins have white or gray chins while Macaronis have fl chins.
		Royal penguins are only found in one place in the world, and that is on Macquarie Island.
	home.earthlink.net /~rockhopperpenguin/Royal.htm (429 words)

	Royal Insight > Out and About > The Duke of York in Chile, Uruguay and the Falklands
		During the war His Royal Highness served on HMS Invincible, flying on anti-submarine missions, casualty evacuations and as a missile decoy.
		After a Royal Salute a roll of honour of the fallen men was read out, and the last post sounded.
		His Royal Highness went on to attend a garden party hosted by the British Embassy, where he met members of the British and Commonwealth communities in Uruguay.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/page1840.asp (1699 words)

	PENGUINS - Appendix: Penguin Species Overviews
		Royal penguins are found on the Macquarie, Bishop and Clerk Islands in the Southern Ocean as well as around the New Zealand coast.
		Erect-crested penguins are found along the coasts of Australia, New Zealand and on the Antipodes and Bounty Islands.
		Magellanic penguins are found on the Falkland Islands and along the coasts of Chile and Argentina.
	www.seaworld.org /animal-info/info-books/penguin/appendix-species.htm (869 words)

	PENGUINS
		Penguins live as far north as the Galapagos Islands, which are right on the equator.
		What the penguin's feathers do is trap heat between their skin and the actual feathers and the penguin's body heat heats the air.
		Penguins in the warmer climates do not have feathers all the way up around their beak, instead, some are even missing feathers around the beak area instead, just to keep cool.
	home.earthlink.net /~rockhopperpenguin/index.htm (933 words)

	Royal Penguins
		Roval and Rock hopper Penguins, together with the king penguins, comprise the group known as the northern penguins, those penguins species who live and breed on the northern, milder islands.
		Royals and Macaronis prefer to form colonies on hillsides and rocky cliffs on tussock-grassed island.
		The royal has a white chin and the Macaroni’s is fl.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /aismalaysia/ADELINE/royal_penguins.htm (142 words)

	Penguin Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Royal penguin,rock hopper penguin, yellow eyed penguin, macaroni penguin and the erect crusted penguin.
		They live in antarctica wich is extremely cold and icy, penguins have also been known to be found in Australia and New Zealand.
		Penguins stay on land at night and spend 80% of there time in the water during the day time.
	www.ohs.osceola.k12.fl.us /teachers/animals/penguin/fcts.html (293 words)

	Center for Biological Diversity - Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		More than half of the world’s 19 penguin species are in danger of extinction, yet only one, the Galapagos Penguin, is currently listed under the Endangered Species Act.
		Whales and penguins are literally starving to death as a result of krill depletion.
		Each of the petitioned penguin species also faces unique and specific additional threats, ranging from introduced predators, disease, habitat destruction, disturbance at breeding colonies, oil spills, marine pollution, and in some cases, direct harvest.
	www.biologicaldiversity.org /swcbd/SPECIES/penguins/index.html (498 words)

	Darlene's Penguin Pages
		With the Emperor weighing an average of 90 lbs and the King an average of 40 lbs, they are not only the largest of the penguins, but rank among the largest birds in the world.
		The penguins in this group all have fl and white stripes on their faces and chests.
		Although they are actually each in their own group, and the only thing they have in common is that they are grouped separately in the penguin "family tree".
	www.eliasdesigns.com /penguins/index.htm (355 words)

	Macaroni Penguins - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Macaroni penguin was named by early English explorers for its yellow crest feathers which resembled those worn in the hats of young18th century men called 'macaronis'; a label later immortalized in the words of the Revolutionary War song 'Yankee Doodle.'
		Though numerous, Macaroni penguins may be threatened by the increasing fishing industry and are vulnerable to oil spills.
		Though similar to their crested cousins, Macaroni penguins are larger and can be distinguished by their yellow-orange tassels which originate in a broad band across the forehead meeting right between their eyes.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/penguins/macaroni.shtml (530 words)

	Eudyptes schlegeli, Royal Penguin at MarineBio.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Royal penguin, Eudyptes schlegeli (Finsch, 1876), is often confused with the Macaroni penguin, however it can easily be distinguished from the Macaroni and other crested penguins by its pale white or gray chin and face.
		The Royal penguin, Eudyptes schlegeli, is a migratory species that spends its time outside of breeding season in the southern seas between Australia and Antarctica.
		Royal penguins used to be hunted for their oil, however they are now protected and are listed as Vunerable VU D2 ver 3.1 (2001) by the IUCN.
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=656 (747 words)

	Penguin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere.
		The evolutionary history of penguins is poorly understood, as penguin bones of any one species vary much in size.
		Penguins are popular around the world, primarily for their unusually upright, waddling pace and (compared to other birds) lack of fear of humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penguin (1865 words)

	Penguin species: Emperor penguin, King penguin, Adelie, Rockhopper, Blue penguin, Macaroni, African (Jackass), Gentoo, ...
		The Brush-tailed Penguins : genus Pygoscelis - "Bottom-legged"
		The only crested penguin with an erect crest: no part of the crest comes below the bird's eye level (when the crest is dry; it droops when it is wet).
		Note: penguin lengths are measured from the tip of the bill to the tip of the tail, when the penguin is stretched out.
	www.patrickdepinguin.com /penguins/species (415 words)

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