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Mila Blue Penguin Mrs.Cottrell 3 rd Grade. Appearance. It has a blue-gray back-white chin ,throat , and front side. It has blue-dark gray flippers. It has curved flippers for swimming fast. habitat. It lives in Australia’s Southern coasts, including Tasmania, and New Zealand.
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Appearance • It has a blue-gray back-white chin ,throat , and front side. • It has blue-dark gray flippers. • It has curved flippers for swimming fast.
habitat • It lives in Australia’s Southern coasts, including Tasmania, and New Zealand. • It’s habitat is in a underground burrow, or in the side of a mountain, and might be in a deep rock crevice.
Food and Hunting • The blue penguin eats, sea horses, crab larvae, small squid, and small shrimp. • It caches its prey by, stabbing it with it’s beak and swallows it in one gulp! • Its enemies are, when it is on land its predators are cats, foxes, and dogs . When it’s in water it is the fur seal.
Nesting Behaviors and Raising Young • They start courtship between “May and October”. • And lay eggs between “June and September”. • Each pair lays two white glistening eggs.
Interesting Facts • The blue penguin is the smallest penguin in the world! • It grows between 30-33 cm. • Its called the fairy penguin due to its small size.
Bibliography • A Visual Introduction to Penguins by Bernhard Stone House,2001. • http//a-z-animals.com/animals/