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The largest King Penguin rookery in the world is in St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia. The penguins have a complicated reproductive cycle, and this rookery is occupied by penguins year-round. They are a noisy group, but they are not as smelly as the Adelie, Gentoo or Chinsatrap Penguins that we met on this voyage. The King Penguins eat mostly fish, not krill. The difference in diet accounts for the gentler aroma of the colony. There are probably a few hundred thousand King Penguins in the panorama. Count them if you wish, but do look for other things that are going on amid this multitude of birds. |
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This relatively small group of King Penguins posed nicely for some of the photographers in our group.These penguins stand at the beach-side end of a large King Penguin rookery much like that seen more broadly in the St Andrews Bay South Georgia panorama on the gigapan site. There was a question about the brown chicks and why there weren't more of them in the wider-view photograph. If you look carefully in this panorama, you will see where those fluffy, brown penguin chicks hide. |
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Cormorant and Egret Rookery on Toledo Bend Lake. These social birds mix together here every Spring to have and raise their young. Occasionally one can spot a Great Blue Heron among them. |