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Story: Penguins

New Zealand’s penguin species

  • Little penguin

  • Yellow-eyed penguin

  • Fiordland crested penguin

  • Snares crested penguin

  • Erect-crested penguin

  • Eastern rockhopper penguin

Click on the box beside the species name to see where they breed.

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Lloyd Spencer Davis, Penguins – Little and yellow-eyed penguins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/6399/new-zealands-penguin-species (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Lloyd Spencer Davis, published 2 March 2009.