Adelie penguins on sea-ice
 - Pygoscelis adeliae

Adelie penguins

More of the Adelies stuck at low tide. The ice-foot is more evident in this picture and the number of penguins is building up, by the time the tide was rising enough to float the grounded "bergy bits" that the birds are standing on, there were about 50 or so of them.

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