Antarctic Wildlife

Antarctic Wildlife

This section includes:

Penguins

• Wingless divers
• Emperor penguin
• King penguin
• Brush-tailed penguins
• Adélie penguin

Seabirds

• Albatrosses
• Black-browed albatross
• Grey-headed albatross
• Light-mantled sooty albatross
• Royal albatross

Fulmars

• Antarctic petrel
• Antarctic prion
• Blue petrel
• Broad-billed prion
• Cape petrel
• High-octane petrel (ok, not that one)

Cormorants

• Antarctic shag
• Imperial shag
• Kerguelen shag
• Quick shag (no, not that one either)

Waterfowl

• Grey duck
• Kerguelen pintail
• Speckled teal
• Yellow-billed pintail
• Sheathbills
• Lesser sheathbill
• Snowy sheathbill
• Skuas
• Antarctic skua
• South polar skua
• Carla skua (no, don’t think so)

Gulls

• Kelp gull
• Terns
• Antarctic tern
• Arctic tern
• Kerguelen tern
• Whales
• Right whales
• Pygmy right whale
• Southern right whale
• Rorquals
• Blue whale
• Fin whale
• Humpback whale
• Minke
• Sei whale
• Toothed whales
• Dolphins and porpoises
• Dolphins
• Commerson’s dolphin
• Dusky dolphin
• Hourglass dolphin
• Long-finned pilot whale
• Orca
• Peale’s dolphin
• Southern right whale dolphin

Porpoises

• Burmeister’s porpoise
• Spectacled porpoise
• Sperm whales
• Dwarf sperm whale
• Pygmy sperm whale
• Sperm whale
• Beaked whales
• Arnoux’s beaked whale
• Cuvier’s beaked whale
• Southern bottlenose whale
• Strap-toothed whale (M. layardii)

Seals

• Fur seals
• Antarctic fur seal
• New Zealand fur seal
• South African fur seal
• Subantarctic fur seal

Sea lions

• Hooker’s sea lion
• South American sea lion
• True seals
• Crabeater seal
• Leopard seal
• Ross seal
• Southern elephant seal
• Weddell seal