Yellow-eyed Penguin

• It is the only penguin in the world that needs privacy to breed: if one pair can see another from the nest, breeding success falls, which is why it depends on dense coastal forest rather than open beaches.
• It appears on the New Zealand five-dollar note, and even so its mainland population has been falling for decades: in some recent seasons fewer than 150 pairs have been counted on the whole South Island.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Coastal forest and dense scrub of the south-east of New Zealand's South Island and the subantarctic islands

Sexual maturity

4 years

Gestation / incubation

43 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadyptes_antipodes

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.