Waterbirds
Least Concern
Quick Facts
Mass0.136 kg
Facts sourced from Wikidata (CC0).
The gentoo penguin is a penguin species in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin and the Chinstrap penguin. The earliest scientific description was made in 1781 by Johann Reinhold Forster with a type locality in the Falkland Islands. The species calls in a variety of ways, but the most frequently heard is a loud, trumpeting call, emitted with the head thrown back.
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