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Good morning and Happy Monday to you.
Today's cheering-up bird is the Macaroni Penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus.
Adults of this species are around 70cm (28 inches)tall/long and males have a mass of around 3.3kg (7lbs) after incubating their egg to around 6.4kg (14lbs) before moulting (females are a little lighter). This dramatic weightloss shows the strain that incubating the egg (and being unable to feed during this time) puts on the birds. More detailed information on this species is available here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_penguin
This image, taken on Livingstone Island, off Antarctica is by Jerzy Sterzelecki and was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macaroni_%28js%291.jpg, where you can view the image licence (creative commons attribution 3.0 unported).
