King penguin (English spelling) Aptenodytes patagonicus; king penguin

Japanese: オウサマペンギン（英語表記）Aptenodytes patagonicus; king penguin

Order Spheniscus, Family Spheniscus. Total length 85-95cm. This is the second largest species after the Emperor Penguin. Its head is black, with a large orange spot on the side of its neck that is shaped like a magatama. The upper part of its chest is a beautiful orange-yellow color, while the lower part of its chest and abdomen are white. Its back is silvery-gray, with a black band between its back and abdomen. It breeds on islands from the Sub-Antarctic Ocean to the Antarctic Circle. It takes more than a year to raise its young, and even birds that are not breeding return to their breeding islands when they are molting. Penguins spend their molting time on land, not eating anything. They do not build nests, and when they lay an egg, they place it on the top of their foot, cover it with the loose skin of their abdomen, and incubate it for about 54 days. They mainly feed on fish, which they catch by diving. They have been recorded diving to a depth of 322m. They are distributed throughout the oceans of the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere all year round, but rarely venture to the coast of Antarctica.

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Japanese:

ペンギン目ペンギン科。全長 85～95cm。コウテイペンギンに次ぐ大型種。頭部は黒く，頸側部に勾玉形の橙色の大斑がある。胸の上部は美しい橙黄色，胸の下部から腹部は白色。背面は銀灰色で，背面と腹面の境に黒い帯がある。亜南極海から南極圏の島々で繁殖する。子育てには 1年以上かかり，繁殖地の島には繁殖期でない鳥も換羽する際に戻る。ペンギン類は換羽中には陸上でなにも食べずに過ごす。巣はつくらず，1卵を産むと足の甲に乗せ，腹のだぶついた皮膚をかぶせて 54日ほど抱卵する。魚類が主食で，潜水してとる。水深 322mの潜水記録がある。一年中南半球南部の海洋に分布するが，南極大陸の沿岸まで出かけるのはまれである。

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