UPDATE: Professor Olaf Eisen, glaciologist at the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), provided us with exciting background information on the emperor penguin colony in Atka Bay. He told Polar Journal in a phone call that the ice thickness of the Ekström ice shelf...
When emperor penguins fledge, they lose their grayish-white downs and the characteristic facial coloring is lost. The young spend their first few years foraging, migrating thousands of kilometers, often outside non-fishing areas. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) The life of...