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Warming sparks penguin breeding boom but experts sound note of caution
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At this time of year, the rocky burrows that honeycomb the dunes on Phillip Island are usually home to moulting juvenile little penguins, who will grow adult feathers and follow their steel-blue parents into the waters of the Bass Strait.
But this week, when oceanographer and penguin specialist Andre Chiaradia was checking burrows, he found one with two balls of black fluff inside; little penguin hatchlings that had emerged from their eggs in mid-autumn.
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Daily parade of penguins to be live-streamed for 4 weeks for the UK
Phillip Island Nature Park wants to bring joy to Brits Feb 11, 2021
Phillip Island Nature Park in Victoria, Australia, will be live-streaming a daily little penguin parade for four weeks to bring some joy to locked-down Brits.
The month-long series will kick off on Monday 15th February, with
Springwatch s Michaela Strachan joining Ranger Skye for the first night of wildlife action. From 8:45pm AEDT (9:45am GMT), you can tune in on YouTube or Facebook to see the penguins, plus hear wildlife and conservation updates that will warm your heart.
Tourists have been going to see the parade since the 1920s and as a result of Covid- 19 restrictions preventing visitors from coming to the park, it will now be broadcast around the world instead.
This will be the first dedicated UK broadcast of the event and will stream at around 10am GMT every day. Live Penguin TV will film the world’s smallest penguin species as they waddle from the sea up to their burrows each evening.
The event will feature a virtual commentary from rangers at the park as well as some guest commentators, including Ray Mears. A previous live stream, put into place during Victoria’s Covid-19 lockdown, had over 25 million viewers.