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At Volunteer Point is a colony of King
Penguins, a colony of Gentoos and Magellanic penguins and burrows. While you will see Gentoos at a variety of places in the Falklands,
Kings are not so frequently found and Volunteer Point might be the only chance to
experience a colony of them.
As of 2005 there are around 600 breeding pairs of King
penguins and nearby over 750 breeding pairs of Gentoo penguins.
In addition to these colonies, there are several hundred
pairs of Magellanic pengins, a wide array of wading birds such as oystercatchers and
sandpipers, and smaller birds like the long-tailed meadowlark, Falklands thrush,
Magellanic snipe, Falkland pipit and dark-faced ground-tyrant. |
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