The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These ...

The fairy penguin (also known as the little penguin) is the world's smallest penguin. Every night, in many places along the coast of Southern Australia, penguin colonies return en masse from their ...

Divorce rates appear to be a more reliable predictor of the reproductive success of the colony than environmental factors ...

In good times, they largely stick with their partners, although there’s often a bit of hanky-panky happening on the side.' ...

Jordan passed the penguin to another registered wildlife rescuer, Lynne Amore, who drove from Bairnsdale to Melbourne on Friday morning with the airconditioning running in her car to keep the penguin ...

A 13-year study of tiny penguins in Australia has dispelled the long-held myth that these seabirds mate for life, with the 'divorce rate' nearly 10 times that of the current statistics for US adults.

St Kilda Pier in Melbourne has a colony of around 1,400 fairy penguins, the smallest penguin species with an average height of just 33cm. The colony is monitored by volunteers. “A volunteer ...

In June, a dozen of little penguins - locally called fairy penguins - were found killed in an apparent dog attack on a nearby beach at the Low Head Conservation Area. Little penguins in the wild ...

king penguin, little blue/fairy penguin, yellow eyed penguin, Magellanic penguin and the erect crested penguin. But then in 2006, the rockhopper penguin began to be recognised as two different ...