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SpeciesSphenisciformesSpheniscidae
Birds

🐧Adelie penguin

Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)

Le Manchot Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae) est une espèce d'oiseaux Sphenisciformes vivant en Antarctique. C'est une des trois espèces du genre Pygoscelis et une des rares espèces de manchots à avoir un plumage de queue saillant, ce qui lui a valu le surnom de « manchot à longue queue ».

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/13th of your weight
Also called
Adélie Penguin
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
4.85 kg
Body length
0.71 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Adelie penguin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.85 kgrecord 4.47 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female4.74 kgWikidataQ187958
  • Male5.35 kgWikidataQ187958
Body length
0.71 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.14 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.09 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Marine
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
4.8 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Adelie penguin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSphenisciformes
  5. ›familySpheniscidae
  6. ›genusPygoscelis
  7. ›speciesPygoscelis adeliae
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
  3. familySpheniscidae
  4. genusPygoscelis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
  11. familySpheniscidae
  12. genusPygoscelis
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In other languages
pingüí d'Adèlia (ca), tučňák kroužkový (cs), Adeliepingvin (da), Adeliepinguin (de), Pygoscelis adeliae (es), jääpingviini (fi) … and 27 more languages
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