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Eudyptula minor · Family Spheniscidae

Eudyptula minor

Family Spheniscidae

Order
Sphenisciformes
Family
Spheniscidae
GBIF occurrence records
566,739
Countries and territories with records
11
Little Penguin
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Eudyptula minor Bruny 1.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · ערן · Eudyptula_minor-Reproduction.ogg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · ערן · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 566,739 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (96.3%) and New Zealand (3.6%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Eudyptula minor combines the genus name Eudyptula with the species epithet minor. It is the only species of the genus Eudyptula in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 18 species of the family Spheniscidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 7.5 times the family average (75,070). The family Spheniscidae belongs to the order Sphenisciformes, which has 18 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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