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 like habitat change or behavioural traits, says researcher Richard Reina.

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

After a gruelling swim and lonely night ashore, the penguin – believed to be a Fiordland – survived attempted attacks by a shark and a hungry fox before wildlife rescuers picked it up at the Victorian ...

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 ...

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 ...