Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]wonderful keep 'em comin' ric On Jan 31, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > The second stop in the Falklands was to visit a Rockhopper Penguin > breeding colony in an area of Tussock Grass. These are small, > aggressive and loud penguins with spectacular eyebrows, who nest at > the top of cliffs and make the journey down and up again daily to > feed, and get their name from their propensity to hop or jump over > rocks on the way. They belong to a part of the group known as Crested > Penguins. The conventional scientific wisdom on why many species of > penguins tend to colonize the highest points of cliffs, despite the > obvious expenditure of large amounts of energy on feeding, is that > these are the spots where the ice melts the earliest, so giving an > earlier start to the breeding season, effective lengthening it, so > more time can be spent on the chicks before they fledge. > > View from the colony: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Panoramas/antarcticpanos_001/Antarctica_20140109_1489.jpg.html > > Trudging Up the Cliff: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1795.jpg.html > > Courtship: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1682.jpg.html > > Ecstatic Display: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1685.jpg.html > > Cacophony: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1640.jpg.html > > Feeding: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1558.jpg.html > > Please see LARGE > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information