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Lonely Penguin

To: John Tongue <>
Subject: Lonely Penguin
From: Mick Roderick <>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:13:29 -0700 (PDT)
Yeah fair enough...nice hoax though!




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From: John Tongue <>
To: Mick Roderick <>
Cc: Birding Aus <>
Sent: Friday, 3 April, 2009 4:55:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Lonely Penguin

I suspect it is a fake/model bird!!

John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas


On 03/04/2009, at 3:30 PM, Mick Roderick wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have recently been researching accommodation on King Island and in my 
> journey I came across a website for some holiday houses on Naracoopa Beach. 
> The website has a slideshow and amongst the various images up pops this one 
> titled "A lonely penguin". See link
> 
> http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/Brewerbackpacker/Other/lonelypenguin.jpg
> 
> I'm assuming the foto was taken on Naracoopa Beach.
> 
> Am I imagining things or is that an Adelie Penguin?!?
> 
> From what I can gather there have only been 2 accepted Australian records 
> away from breeding localities; one Port Davey and one from Fortescue Bay, 
> both in southern Tassie. It's also listed as a vagrant to Maquarie Is.
> 
> A good example of one flying under the radar (not literally of course)!
> 
> Mick
> 
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