DNA results revealed the bird, kept at Birdland Park and Gardens ... Birdland is now awaiting the arrival of a young female king penguin from Germany to ensure the long-term success of the ...

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

The egg usually hatches before the female returns to rear her chick, while the male – having not eaten for four months - makes the journey to the sea to feed himself but also provide for his chick.

A partially-sighted penguin at a bird park has found a "guide bird" in one of her friends. Squid, an African penguin based at Birdworld in Farnham, Surrey, developed cataracts as a chick.

Yet this extraordinary bird faces new and extraordinary pressures — most ominously, the rapid acceleration of global warming. And the emperor is not alone: More than half of the world's 19 penguin ...