The southern rockhopper subspecies breeds on the Falkland Islands and in southern Chile and southern Argentina. The eastern rockhopper penguin breeds on Prince Edward Island and the Marion Islands in ...

Soon after, the African penguin was listed as endangered and the New Zealand-Australia populations of the southern rockhopper penguin were listed as threatened. After another Center petition, in 2014 ...

But then in 2006, the rockhopper penguin began to be recognised as two different species, the southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) and the northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi).

The southern Rockhopper penguin has shorter feathers around its head. The coins were part of a set that featured a King, Gentoo, Magellanic and Rockhopper penguins. But a fault in the design on ...