Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli)
About the Royal Penguin
The royal penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) is a species of penguin, which can be found only on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and adjacent islands. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the royal penguin as Least Concern. The royal penguin belongs to the genus Eudyptes. It was first described by the German ornithologist Otto Finsch in 1876 and was named in honor of the German zoologist Hermann Schlegel. The species is very closely related to the macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus), and the two have sometimes been treated as conspecific due to their similar morphology and behavior. Hybridization between royal and macaroni penguins has also been recorded on Macquarie Island.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 10 recordings for this species: 6 CC BY-NC-ND · 4 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Australia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Macaroni PenguinEudyptes chrysolophusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.