Orphaned Yellow Eyed Penguin Chick Penguin Place Hospital NZ
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An orphaned Yellow-eyed Penguin chick is being cared for by a tour guide at the Penguin Place Hospital on the Otago Peninsula near Dunedin on the South Island of NZ.

At the Penguin Place Hospital near Dunedin on the South Island of NZ, many of the orphaned Yellow-eyed Penguins are cared for until they are ready to return to their natural environment. Here a tour guide feeds a chick to ensure that it grows strong enough and once there, a trained professional will examine the Yellow-eyed Penguin before allowing it to return to the penguin colony.

Penguin Place Hospital is not open to the public but tourists wanting to see these cute animals can book a guided tour. These 90 minute tours will take a small group of people to the Yellow-eyed Penguin colony near Dunedin, NZ where one can watch the penguins from the tunnels, observation huts and covered trenches.

The Yellow-eyed Penguins are listed as endangered species and with a helping hand from the people at the Penguin Place Hospital, orphaned chicks, injured and sick penguins will recover and keep the population intact along the NZ coast.

Tour guide from the Penguin Place feeding an orphaned Yellow-Eyed Penguin Chick, Megadyptes antipodes, at the Penguin Place Hospital, Otago Peninsula near Dunedin, East Coast, South Island, New Zealand.