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Northern Rockhopper Penguin
Eudyptes moseleyi Mathews & Iredale, 1921
Spheniscidae — Penguins
Northern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes moseleyi, breeds in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, with colonies in the Tristan da Cunha group including Gough, and on St Paul and Amsterdam islands. It is a penguin of these southern ocean islands and is now treated as a separate species. It nests in colonies from sea level and cliff faces to inland sites. The bird is set apart from other rockhoppers by differences in crest tassels, the fleshy edge of the bill, the underside of the flipper, and the stripe above the eye.
- Order
- Sphenisciformes
- Family
- Spheniscidae — Penguins
- Breeding range
- Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean: Tristan da Cunha group including Gough (sc South Atlantic Ocean), St. Paul and Amsterdam is. (sc Indian Ocean)
