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Rockfall just misses penguin colony

Dunedin

By Rebecca Fox on Fri, 14 Jun 2013

Aramoana resident Bradley Curnow, with his Department of Conservation-issued hard hat, surveys a recent rock slide on Big Beach, next to a yellow-eyed penguin colony. Photo by Craig Baxter.

Part of a cliff face has fallen on to an Aramoana beach, narrowly missing a colony of endangered yellow-eyed penguins. Man-sized boulders crashed down the cliff and on to the beach recently, flattening trees and tussock on the Aramoana Recreational Reserve.

The cliff had been known to crumble occasionally but it was the first time in many years such a big fall had occured, nearby resident Bradley Curnow said.

''This is by far the biggest. I didn't even hear it, which is unusual,'' he said.

Luckily, it just missed the traps set by Aramoana Conservation Trust volunteers to protect the penguins and their nests, but it did knock down a sign informing people it was a nesting area and not to bring dogs into the area.

He believed the rockfall was the result of the recent rain and snow combined with frosts.

Doc ranger Jim Fyfe said the rockfall was a natural process and ''by luck'' it had not affected the yellow-eyed penguins.

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Penguin hatches at Tampa zoo

Posted:  Jun 10, 2013 

Tampa - Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo announced the successful hatching of a spring chick – an African penguin.
The newest African penguin chick, hatched May 8, and is the third successful hatchling for parents "Thumbelina" and "Flannigan" who have been paired for several years.
As with the previous chicks, the newest offspring transitioned to zookeeper care to ease independence and learn to swim.
Then it will join the colony on exhibit in several months.

 African Penguin chick

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