Little Penguin

Order Sphenisciformes; Family Spheniscidae (penguins); Scientific name: Eudyptula minor; Common name: Little Penguin; Alternative common name: Fairy Penguin – Penguin researcher Dr. Belinda Cannell examining condition of Little Penguin chicks on Penguin Island in Western Australia - Distribution in Australia: coasts and offshore islands of southern Australia from Penguin Island off Rockingham in Western Australia, along South Australian and Victorian coast, and all around Tasmania and islands of the Bass Strait to about Maitland north of Newcastle in New South Wales; Distribution outside Australia: coasts of New Zealand and Chatham Island.