Pete & Barb's Penguin Pages
Inside this site you will find everything you want to know about penguins.  There are around 150 information pages and over 200 photographs. 

These pages are best viewed with a frames capable browser (e.g. Netscape 3 or higher) and with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. You can begin to explore our penguin site simply by clicking on the penguins on the right.

If you do not have a frames capable browser then you can still view our pages, but you will have to navigate around the site using the index at the foot of each page (nb this will not always point to all sections so you may want to return to the non-frames index page from time to time.

 
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The 17 species of penguins form the largest group of flightless birds. Although most people seem to associate penguins with the cold Antarctic regions, in fact penguins can be found around the coasts of most islands in the southern ocean. The most northerly penguins are found on the Galapagos Islands which straddle the equator.

 

In July 2000 a major oil spill affected about 40% of all African Penguins - the re-location, cleaning  and rehabilitation of around 40,000 penguins was probably the most successful wildlife rescue project ever.

The rescue was co-ordinated by SANCCOB - if you want to help them with future rehabilitation why not make a small donation? Just visit their web site for deatils

You can read all about the rescue on the web-site of the Avian Demography Unit (ADU) the University of Cape Town (see the Treasure Spill in the Sea Birds section) 

On the ADU web site you can also buy a copy of the excellent "Peter the Penguin" and read about the spill from a penguin's perspective

 


 
 
 
 

There have been over visitors 500,000 to this page since June 1996.

 


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