David de Groot 📸 on Nostr: This wee chap, seen from a long distance away, is one of the rarest penguins on ...

This wee chap, seen from a long distance away, is one of the rarest penguins on earth. It’s a Yellow-eyed Penguin. Estimates of the wild population are around 1000-1500 birds left, of which 800 or so nest on the South Island of New Zealand (the remainder are on Stewart Is and two sub-antarctic islands in NZ’d territory).

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