Adélie penguin: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Adélie penguin lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Pygoscelis adeliae
Group	Penguins
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Antarctica
Mass	124 g (birth weight); 5.35 kg (male organism, adult weight); 4.74 kg (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Sphenisciformes
Family	Spheniscidae

Where does the Adélie penguin live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Adélie penguin in 1 country or territory across Antarctica. Wikidata gives its range as: South America, United States.

Antarctica

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is an Adélie penguin?

Wikidata records the following for the Adélie penguin: mass 124 g (birth weight); 5.35 kg (male organism, adult weight); 4.74 kg (female organism, adult weight).

Is the Adélie penguin endangered?

The Adélie penguin’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Adélie penguin?

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a bird in the order Sphenisciformes and the family Spheniscidae, genus Pygoscelis. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Adélie penguin

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent. It is the most widespread penguin species in the Antarctic, and, along with the emperor penguin, is the most southerly distributed of all penguins. It is named after Adélie Land, in turn, named for Adèle Dumont d'Urville, who was married to French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, who first discovered this penguin in 1840. Adélie penguins obtain their food by both predation and foraging, with a diet of mainly krill and fish.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Adélie penguin (revision 1381141612), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q187958 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).