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Species |
Family |
Scientific name |
Breeding Regions |
Breeding Subregions |
Nonbreeding Subregions |
- SPHENISCIFORMES |
Emperor Penguin (NT) i | Spheniscidae | Aptenodytes forsteri | AN | Antarctic sea ice | to edge of pack-ice |
King Penguin i | Spheniscidae | Aptenodytes patagonicus | SO | subantarctic is. beaches: Tierra del Fuego, Falkland Is., South Georgia, South Sandwich Is. (sw South Atlantic), Prince Edward, Crozet, Kerguelen and Heard is. (sw, se South Indian), Macquarie I. (far se of Australia, sw South Pacific) | mostly around Antarctic Convergence; to subantarctic New Zealand is., s tip of South America and Antarctic Pen. |
100% 2 species of 2 (0 extinct).
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IUCN Status Codes |
EX | Extinct |
EW | Extinct in the wild |
CR | Critically Endangered |
EN | Endangered |
VU | Vulnerable |
NT | Near Threatened |
LC | Least Concern |
DD | Data deficient |
NE | Not evaluated |
LC not shown.
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Breeding Range Codes |
AF | Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) |
AN | Antarctica |
AO | Atlantic Ocean |
AU | Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) |
PAL | Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) |
IO | Indian Ocean |
LA | Latin America (Middle and South America) |
MA | Middle America (Mexico through Panama) |
NA | North America (includes the Caribbean) |
NO | Northern oceans |
OR | Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) |
PO | Pacific Ocean |
SA | South America |
SO | Southern oceans |
TO | Temperate oceans |
TrO | Tropical oceans |
Worldwide | Worldwide |
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