| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | SPHENISCIFORMES | SPHENISCIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Aptenodytes forsteri | |||
| Species Authority: | Gray, 1844 | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | ||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2009 | ||||||
| Assessor/s: | BirdLife International | ||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Bird, J., Butchart, S. | ||||||
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Justification: This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is very large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. |
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| Range Description: | The Emperor Penguin has a circumpolar range, restricted to the coast of Antarctica where major breeding colonies can be found, amongst other places in the Ross Sea sector, along the coast of Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land1. |
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Native:
Antarctica
Vagrant:
Argentina; Chile; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); French Southern Territories (the); Heard Island and McDonald Islands; New Zealand; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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| Habitat and Ecology: | This species is marine and pelagic feeding mainly on fish in Antarctic waters (although krill and cephalopods can be important in places). It nests on ice floes near the coast or on the coast iteself, sometimes up to as much as 200 km from the open sea in large colonies. It has an annual breeding cycle, arriving at the colony between March and April, laying between May and June1. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial; Marine |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2009. Aptenodytes forsteri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012. |
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