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Known in Māori as hoiho, the yellow-eyed penguin is native to New Zealand's South Island and subantarctic islands. Pale yellow eyes and a band of yellow feathers around the back of the head distinguish adults from other penguins in the region. Its breeding habitat includes sheltered coastal vegetati...
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Ancient DNA helped identify the Waitaha penguin, Megadyptes waitaha, as an extinct New Zealand species described in 2008. It belonged to the same genus as the living yellow-eyed penguin, rather than to the crested penguin group. Genetic evidence from old bones showed that mainland New Zealand's peng...
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