Eastern Rockhopper Penguin

Eudyptes filholi

The eastern rockhopper penguin, also known as the tawaki kaipiki toka, is a crested penguin with yellow crest feathers. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the western rockhopper penguin with the name "southern rockhopper penguin" for the combined species. It is one of the smallest crested penguins and has distinctive pink margins around its bill. It breeds on islands in the Southern Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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