> says #WHOI Associate Scientist Daniel Zitterbart. "Understanding what emperor penguins determine as good, stable sea ice is something I'm really interested in.” A polar stethoscope www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feat... Sep. 25, 2025 @mars-lab-whoi.bsky.social @whoi.edu @awi.de #emperorpenguin #エンペラーペンギン

Looks like the Halley Bay emperors are back at the McDonald Ice Rumples site. This colony has been particularly unlucky with the ice, lets see how they do this year. (image; enhanced Sentinel-2 20th Sept 2025)

And here's small Yule Bay colony 🐧 Sep. 19, 2025.

The Coulman Island penguin colony 🐧🐧🐧 Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 13, 2025.

Well be at London Zoo next week launching the Penguin Book of Penguins www.londonzoo.org/plan-your-vi...

Russian scientists at the Mirny research station recently saved a baby emperor penguin after it became separated from its colony and risked freezing to death. In footage shared by the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute on Tuesday... 🔗 uk.news.yahoo.com/stranded-pen... #emperorpenguin

📙🐧✨ Image from Penguin Books' newsletter for the release date of “The Penguin Book of Penguins” (September 18, 2025) @ptfretwell.bsky.social @lisaefretwell.bsky.social #PenguinBooksUK

Our book, 'The Penguin book of penguins' will be in all good bookshops as of tomorrow! We have signed some copies for Toppings and Co in Ely, Cambridge. We are having a book launch at London zoo on Sept 28. Come and find us in the Garden room, anytime between 12 noon and 3.30pm. No need to book!

Imagine having to sail around bits of the largest iceberg in the world to do your job 😲 BAS marine biologists Katie Wells and Rhi Nichol were sailing out near South Georgia, and got an amazing view of the fragmenting #A23a iceberg! They also spotted 250 chinstrap penguins enjoying the ice. 🧵 1/5

And here's a love;y image from yesterday of Neumayer Station and the nearby emperor penguin colony at Atka Bay. Most of the recent emperor penguin documentaries have all been made from this site.

The emperor penguin colony at Cape Darlington, that we discovered in 2019, has moved 40 km south due to an ice shelf break off. Its current location is just south of Butler Island and it looks much better for the change of location.

The path forward for climate and geoengineering requires: ✅ Maintained focus on decarbonisation + clean energy ✅ Continued scientific research to understand all options ✅ Transparent, inclusive debate about emerging technologies Read more about this on the BAS website: ow.ly/Eq8a50WU2QY 🧵 6/6

On this National Threatened Species Day (Australia), we're hoping a 2022 decision to list the emperor penguin as “threatened” under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct marks a turning point for these majestic birds—and the entire Antarctic ecosystem. 📲 Learn more: go.whoi.edu/threatened-emperor-penguins

Celebrating Nature Communications, 5th year aniversary, they have highlight some of the most significant papers and sceince highlights: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Antarctica is changing at s disturbing rate. “What happens in Antarctica won’t stay there. The stakes could not be higher. The choices made now will determine whether we face a future of worsening impacts and irreversible change or one of managed resilience to the changes already locked in.”

"... “abrupt changes” are occurring in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, driven by human-caused climate change: ❄️ Sea-ice coverage is declining 🧊 Ice sheet and ice shelf stability is weakening 🐧 Populations of some terrestrial and marine species are struggling" www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/ne...

Scientists warn of ‘abrupt changes’ taking place in Antarctica https://www.europesays.com/2346820/ Scientists warn of ‘abrupt changes’ taking place in Antarctica …

ok but guys there is a new penguin and it's called a Rockaroni 🦑 en.mercopress.com/2025/06/19/w...

Atka Bay の #エンペラーペンギン 1月始めには海へと旅立つのね 🌊🐧 叫ぶように必死に鳴いている 仲間を探してるのかな？ この動画は📍Neumayer Station III 🇦🇶でエンジニアをされているスイス人🇨🇭のThomas Schenkさん 、2025年1月3日の投稿 www.instagram.com/reel/DEVg0se... より #Antarctica #emperorpenguin Alfred Wegener Institute #AWI @awi.de

Albatrosses are majestic birds known for soaring thousands of miles over the ocean, but they’re in trouble. A new paper led by BAS scientists has found that the number of breeding pairs of albatrosses in South Georgia has decreased - one species by 66% in 40 years! 🧵 1/2

Each year as the sun starts to reappear over Antarctica I start the process of going through Sentinel2 imagery to find the locations of the 66 known emperor penguin colonies. Here is this year's first image, of Snow Hill, the most northerly colony. Can you spot the penguins?

The most iconic species of them all, Emperor penguins, are under substantial threat. We are on track to lose them. Like so many scientists before, we call for rapid global decarbonisation for lifes’ sake. Like these calls before, its evidenced based & to ignore is at our collective peril.

Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes which most likely will significantly intensify in the future. Caused by climate change, they span ice sheet, sea ice, ocean & life itself . These changes are a clarion call to all of us, ‘cause what happens in Antarctica affects us all. 1/

@bas.ac.uk hosts 'Pre-Deployment Training' each year, for those going to Antarctica. Everyone attending receives a couple of maps in their pack and we've been busy printing and collecting up these maps ready for the event! Nothing beats a map to help orient people for their exciting adventure ahead.

It’s pretty cool that swimming penguins have more than a hint of dolphin. Convergent evolution between mammals & birds! But the penguins got there first. The tallest known penguin (-2m tall) lived ~55 million yrs ago, approx when the land mammal ancestors of whales/dolphins started to become aquatic

In conversation with… penguin counter Peter Fretwell 🐧 07/08/2025 UKAHT www.ukaht.org/latest-news/... @antarcticheritage.bsky.social @ptfretwell.bsky.social

Some of the steps in the development of this Emperor Pengiun (Aptenodytes forsteri) illustration. #penguin #EmperorPenguin #wildlife #nature #marinelife #sciart #bird #birdart #ArtYear #bskyart #animalart

Historical satellite imagery provides crucial insights, not only for penguin colonies but also for establishing realistic baselines to support conservation efforts and effective management across broad spatial scales. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

We've detected penguin guano stains across Antarctica with cold-war era spy satellites. Remarkably, data from the Cape Washington colony shows exceptional stability, defying decades of environmental change. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Analog US spy satellite images from the 1960s are revealing unexpected surprises—this time, it's penguin poop! So, what does the poop tell us in our latest preprint? Work lead by Martynas Bielinis, @drmichellelarue.bsky.social, myself, and Catalina Munteanu

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Same island, new map (and new discoveries!) 🗺️ The Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (@magic.bas.ac.uk) and Geology Team have produced new maps of Alexander Island in Antarctica – the first update in 40 years!

Day 334 of being majestic. Still no crown. 📷 Paul Carroll #SouthGeorgia #SouthGeorgiaIsland #KingPenguins #Penguins #Penguin #NaturePhotography #Polar #Antarctica

Today's fun fact: Chinstraps regularly try to steal stones from each other’s nests. Chinstraps are so protective of their rocks as they will shield their young from snowmelt, which could be deadly to developing offspring if it seeps into the nest. 📷 Victoria J Stokes #Penguins #SouthGeorgia

Historical remote sensing highlights long-term persistence of Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) colonies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667967v1

Come and join BAS, working with both MAGIC and the Wildlife from Space Team! We are looking for an expert in ecological remote sensing with experience of spectral analysis to support our Darwin Plus South Georgia Seabird project. 🐦🦤 bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

You can find more info about the project at : www.bas.ac.uk/project/sout...

Ernest Shackleton's stranded Endurance expedition crew played 'football with the penguins', unearthed logbook and letters reveal www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... 28 Jul 2025 Daily Mail

As summer temperatures hit 36°C, about a hundred people attended a public symposium in Tokyo to discuss “How will global warming change Antarctica and the Southern Ocean?” It kicked off an important meeting this week between Japanese and Australian Antarctic scientists about joint research.

Iceberg A23a is on the move again. Still over 50 km long as it rounds South Georgia.

Waddle on Sea www.waddleonsea.co.uk Sculptures — Waddle on Sea www.waddleonsea.co.uk/sculptures

Mawson emperor penguin census – Australian Antarctic Program 17 JULY 2025 🐧 www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/ma... > Population counts have been ongoing since 1957, and averaged about 2500 birds between 2002 and 2023. Taylor Glacier #Antarctica #Mawsonstation #EmperorPenguin #エンペラーペンギン #コウテイペンギン

Bedmap3 map PDFs are now available to freely download from BAS data.bas.ac.uk/items/757872...

The emperor penguin could be extinct by the end of this century is fossil fuel companies are allowed to pump greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere unabated.

Antarctica’s Emperor Penguins and Seals Are at the “Pointy End” of Climate Change | Sierra Club July 9, 2025 www.sierraclub.org/sierra/antar... @ptfretwell.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @sierraclub.org #EmperorPenguin #Antarctica #ClimateChange

We haven't done a full check, but we might have captured the oldest puffin on Machias Seal Island. While the longevity record for Atlantic Puffin is 45 years (from Iceland), the North American record is 33 years. Last night we captured a bird banded as a chick in 1992, making it 33!🧪🪶

Response sent to the White House. Summary: The planet doesn’t need an emperor dictating trade. Mainland Antarctica already has millions of Emperors, and even their droppings do more good than the White House’s globally destabilizing policies. In other words, go take a long hike on thin ice.

JULY 8, 2025 #SecretsOfThePenguins 👑🐧✨ Talesmith’s Secrets of the Penguins Celebrates Multiple Prestigious Festival Nominations www.talesmith.tv/news/talesmi... #NationalGeographic #NatGeo #Telesmith @bertiegregory.bsky.social

No sooner has the #emperorpenguin begun to reveal its secrets than it's already disappearing from #Antarctica. This article summarizes @polarjournal.bsky.social's long-term monitoring of scientific publications and the Antarctic #Treaty concerning this iconic bird. polarjournal.net/a-bird-thats...