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Pebble has a minion!

Aves the Little Egglet

Pebble

The

Common Cybill
Owner:

emmie1989

Age: 7 years, 5 months, 2 weeks

Born: November 17th, 2016

Adopted: 7 years, 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: November 17th, 2016

This pet has been nominated for the Pet Spotlight!

Statistics

Level: 157
Strength: 393
Defense: 134
Speed: 111
Health: 144
HP: 144/144
Intelligence: 198
Books Read: 193
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Scuba Instructor

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Little Penguin

Location
Little Penguins are native to the coastlines of New Zealand, specifically North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands and their offshore islands. Little Penguins can be spotted on the southern coastlines of Australia. They often visit The Three Kings Island and The Snares Islands, but are not commonly found to live there.

Diet
The diet of the Little Penguin comprises of small fish, squid and crustaceans including::

1. Arrow Squid
2. Slender Sprat
3. Graham's Gudgeon
4. Red Cod
5. Ahura
6. Stomatopod Larvae

All of which are a important part of their diet.

Breeding
Little penguins can breed as isolated pairs, in colonies, or semi-colonially. They are monogamous within a breeding season, and share incubation and chick rearing duties. They are the only species of penguin capable of producing more than one clutch of eggs per breeding season, but few populations do so. Chicks are brooded for 18-38 days and fledge after 7-8 weeks.

Threats and conservation
Many colonies are in decline due to predation by introduced predators including cats, dogs and ferrets. Little penguins at sea are at risk of entanglement in set nets. Some mainland colonies are also affected by human encroachment onto important breeding areas, and individual pairs are often physically removed or blocked out of nest sites under houses, when owners object to their loud calls and fishy odour. Little penguins respond well to predator control and provision of nest boxes to provide safe nesting sites, with populations around Wellington Harbour, Banks Peninsula and the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony increasing as a result.

A Poem By Pebble

I'm not a traditional Penguin.
I don't live in the Antarctic,
I hate the icy Climate

I prefer the warmer
Countries on the
Southern Hemisphere;
New Zealand and Australia

I'm the smallest breed
of Penguin, only
Twenty-Eight centimetres
Weighing one point six Kilograms

My breed is nicknamed
'Fairy Penguin' due to our size
Eudyptula minor is our
Scientific Name

I live in a nest box
Provided by Humans
at Marlborough Sounds
In New Zealand

I travel up-to
twenty Kilometres in
Search of Food, Diving
Up to twenty metres deep.

I am nocturnal
on land, after
Returning with
Our Raft

My Raft is
Compromised
of my neighbours, we
Feed together too.

Information and Pictures provided by New Zealand Birds Online