Western Rockhopper Penguin
Eudyptes chrysocome(Forster, JR, 1781)
English (US) Western Rockhopper Penguin
The Western Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Spheniscidae (Penguins) in the order Sphenisciformes.
Range: breeds far southern Chilean islands of Magallanes Province to Cape Horn Archipelago and Falkland Islands; winters northward along Patagonian coastRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Eudyptes chrysocome
- Family
- Spheniscidae (Penguins)
- Order
- Sphenisciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Western Rockhopper Penguin
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1781)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Aptenodytes chrysocome
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1781)
- Type locality
- Tasmania and Falkland Islands = Falkland Islands; further restricted to Kidney Island, Berkeley Sound, East Falkland Island, by Carins, 1974, Emu, 74, p. 56.
- Original description
- Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 3(1780) p.133,135
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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