This is a Macaroni Penguin, named after a class of rich, well traveled Englishmen in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century who picked up foreign ways, such as wearing feathers in their hats. A person who adopted such flamboyant ornamentation was known as a Macaroni. The name Macaroni was given to these penguins in the early nineteenth century because they reminded the sailors of the English Dandies. The scientific name Eudyptes chrysolophus translates as great diver with a golden crest. The shape and face-on stare of this one reminds me of Feathers McGraw off Wallace and Gromit's "The Wrong Trousers". I photographed this Macaroni at Cooper Bay on South Georgia where they breed.
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