PENGUINS RETURN
Breeding At Cape Royds (N.Z. Press Association) SCOTT BASE, Oct. 21. The first Adelie penguins of the season have arrived at their Antarctic breeding ground. Cape Royds. By instinct they return to the same rookery at the same time every summer. Today, a photographer, Mr G. Mannering, of Christchurch, reported to Scott Base: “The . first penguin strutted up over the ice into the rookery at 4 p.m. yesterday.” Mr Mannering, with a field assistant, R. Rae. of Hastings, has been waiting at Cape Royds for the past two days to record the arrival of the first penguins.
The photographs will complete a life cycle series for the Canterbury University biology department. As the days go by more and more Adelies will waddle over the ice to Cape Royds, the world’s southernmost penguin rookery. At the height of the mating season in late November about a thousand pairs of birds will be terraced around the hilly coastal rookery.
At present the ice edge is about 15 miles from Cape Royds. The penguins swim in from the outer pack ice, catapult themselves onto the ice, and then start a mass march towards the rookery.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31197, 22 October 1966, Page 3
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194PENGUINS RETURN Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31197, 22 October 1966, Page 3
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