The smallest penguin species, standing around 30 cm tall with a blue-grey back and white underside. Found along the coasts of southern Australia and New Zealand, it nests in burrows and forages at sea by day, coming ashore only at night.
Taxonomy
- Order / family / genus
- Sphenisciformes · Spheniscidae · Eudyptula
Conservation
Least concern
· LCWidespread and abundant taxa.