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You may know them as little blue penguins, little penguins, blue penguins, or, if you’re Australian, fairy penguins. New Zealand Geographic has decided to use the name first bestowed on the birds in this country: kororā. The word also means slate grey, the colour of their dorsal feathers. Pictured is a ‘white-flippered’ kororā from Banks Peninsula—identifiable by the margins on its wings, unique to birds that nest there. Kororā occasionally appears in place names. Kororāreka, a village in the Bay of Islands that later became the first permanent European settlement in New Zealand, means ‘delicious little blue penguin’. In the 1840s, it was renamed Russell.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 158 July- August 2019.
Read the feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-wreck-of-the-penguins/
Photographs Richard Robinson © 2019
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THE WRECK OF THE PENGUINS
You may know them as little blue penguins, little penguins, blue penguins, or, if you’re Australian, fairy penguins. New Zealand Geographic has decided to use the name first bestowed on the birds in this country: kororā. The word also means slate grey, the colour of their dorsal feathers. Pictured is a ‘white-flippered’ kororā from Banks Peninsula—identifiable by the margins on its wings, unique to birds that nest there. Kororā occasionally appears in place names. Kororāreka, a village in the Bay of Islands that later became the first permanent European settlement in New Zealand, means ‘delicious little blue penguin’. In the 1840s, it was renamed Russell.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 158 July- August 2019. <br /> Read the feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-wreck-of-the-penguins/<br /> Photographs Richard Robinson © 2019