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SpeciesSphenisciformesSpheniscidae

Birds

🐧Adelie penguin

Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)

アデリーペンギン（Pygoscelis adeliae）は、鳥綱ペンギン目ペンギン科アデリーペンギン属に分類される鳥類。中型のペンギン。南極大陸で繁殖するペンギンはこの種とコウテイペンギンのみである。種名は、1840年に南極に上陸したフランス人探検家デュモン・デュルヴィルの妻・アデリー (Adélie) への献名で、彼が上陸した場所はアデリーランドと名付けられ、そこで発見された本種にもアデリーの名が付けられた。

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vs you

≈ 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

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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

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

Tarsus length

0.03 m

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

Trophic level

Carnivore

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

Habitat

Marine

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

Lifestyle

Aquatic

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

Volume l

4.8 Laverage

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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.

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kingdomMetazoa
phylumChordata
subphylumCraniata
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
superclassSarcopterygii
superclassTetrapoda
orderSauria
classBirds · Aves
orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
familySpheniscidae
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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