Snares penguin: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

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

Scientific name	Eudyptes robustus
Group	Penguins
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Mass	347 g (male organism, adult weight); 300 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Sphenisciformes
Family	Spheniscidae

Where does the Snares penguin live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Snares penguin in 1 country or territory across Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to New Zealand. Wikidata gives its range as: South America.

New Zealand

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 a Snares penguin?

Wikidata records the following for the Snares penguin: mass 347 g (male organism, adult weight); 300 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the Snares penguin endangered?

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

What kind of animal is the Snares penguin?

The Snares penguin (Eudyptes robustus) is a bird in the order Sphenisciformes and the family Spheniscidae, genus Eudyptes. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Snares penguin

The Snares penguin (Eudyptes robustus; Māori: Pokotiwha), also known as the Snares crested penguin and the Snares Islands penguin, is a penguin from New Zealand. The species breeds on the Snares Islands, a group of islands off the southern coast of the South Island. It is a yellow-crested penguin, with a size of 50–70 cm (19.5–27.5 in) and a weight of 2.5–4 kg (5.5–8.8 lb). It has dark blue-black upper parts and white underparts. It has a bright yellow eyebrow-stripe which extends over the eye to form a drooping, bushy crest. It has bare pink skin at the base of its large red-brown bill.

The species nests in colonies ranging in size from around 10 nests to around 1200, under forest cover or the open. The main colonies are located on North East Island; other colonies are established on Broughton Island as well as the rocky Western Chain.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Snares penguin (revision 1353120335), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q753758 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).