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Erect-crested penguin eggs

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Erect-crested penguin eggs

Erect-crested penguins lay two eggs each year, the second egg being 85% heavier than the first. However, they only ever rear one chick. Almost always the chick hatches from the second egg. This phenomenon is a trait of all crested penguins.

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New Zealand Penguins

by Dave Houston

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Lloyd Spencer Davis, Penguins – Crested penguins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6423/erect-crested-penguin-eggs (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Lloyd Spencer Davis, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.

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