Molting King Penguin Chick, South Georgia Island

A King penguin chick is molting into its adult plumage in South Georgia Island's Salisbury Plain in the South Atlantic Ocean. King penguins breed on seven sub-Antarctic island groups.

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Keywords:

• Antarctic
• Aptenodytes patagonicus
• Bay of Isles
• Eleanor Briccetti
• Salisbury Plain
• South Georgia Island
• Southern Ocean
• adolescent
• alone
• amusing
• bird
• chick
• forlorn
• geeky
• island
• king penguin
• king penguin chick
• molting
• muddy
• penguin
• plumage
• sub-antarctic
• unattractive
• wet
• young

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