Mountaineer Penguin
The islands just off the Antarctic Peninsula have huge nesting colonies of Chinstrap Penguins. I only saw one colony of Chinstraps, which was located (continued below)
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"Building a
hilltop nest"
On a site high above the sea, a Chinstrap Penguin adds a stone to its nest.
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on a plateau above a Gentoo Penguin colony. Apparently the Chinstraps routinely nest above colonies of Gentoos and Adelies, and one description I read said that Chinstraps are really avian mountaineers. They nest early in virtually inaccessible places where the snow melts out early, and they sometimes claw their way up to these places using flippers and feet to climb. The way down, however, is much easier since they can glide on their bellies on a steep snowy slope.

When Chinstraps incubate eggs, the males and females trade off laying on the nest while the mate goes out to sea to feed. Each mate spends about six days on the nest before the other comes back - a very long time to wait. While at sea, Chinstraps mostly eat krill, the small, shrimp-like crustacean that is the base of the Antarctic food chain.

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