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Fiordland Penguin
Eudyptes pachyrhynchus Gray, GR, 1845
Spheniscidae — Penguins
Fiordland Penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, breeds in south-western New Zealand, including the south-west of the South Island, Stewart Island and nearby islands. It is a penguin in the family Spheniscidae, first described by Gray in 1845. Its breeding sites are in dense temperate coastal forest, where it nests among tree roots and rocks. Outside the breeding season it ranges to the Tasman Sea and south-eastern Australian waters. Fossils show it once occurred farther north in New Zealand, and it was also present in Australia.
- Order
- Sphenisciformes
- Family
- Spheniscidae — Penguins
- Breeding range
- Australasia: sw South, w, s Stewart, and satellites (New Zealand)
- Nonbreeding range
- to Tasman Sea and se Australian waters
