Eudyptes chrysocome
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The western rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters around the southern coast of South America and nearby islands. The western rockhopper penguin was formerly considered to be conspecific with the eastern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes filholi) of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, with the combined species then known as southern rockhopper penguin. These two taxa together had previously also been considered conspecific with the northern rockhopper penguin (E. moseleyi).
In 1743 the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the western rockhopper penguin in the first volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on a preserved specimen owned by Peter Collinson. When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the tenth edition, he placed the western rockhopper penguin with the red-billed tropicbird in the genus Phaethon. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Phaethon demersus and cited Edwards' work. The use of Linnaeus' binomial name was not adopted by later...
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falkland Islands | 🇫🇰 Falkland Islands |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pairi Daiza | 🇧🇪 Belgium | |
| 2 | Shedd Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Detroit Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Saint Louis Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Fort Worth Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Faunia | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 8 | Riverbanks Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | Loro Parque | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 10 | Tokyo Sea Life Park | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 11 | L'Oceanogràfic | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 12 | Oceanopolis | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 13 | Niigata City Aquarium Marinepia Nihonkai | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 14 | Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 15 | Two Oceans Aquarium | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 16 | New England Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 17 | Awashima Marine Park | 🇯🇵 Japan |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Rockhopper Penguin sighting in Falkland Islands on a given day, based on 892 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 27th most-seen of the 79 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Rockhopper Penguin in Falkland Islands on a given day, against about 10% in September, the lowest month.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Southern Rockhopper Penguin sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Falkland Islands, in our data
Falkland Islands is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Southern Rockhopper Penguin sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Southern Rockhopper Penguin is recorded against all the birds logged in Falkland Islands (892 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
