Penguin Beach
Habitat
Penguin Beach has been designed to look very like coastal habitats near Cape Town in South Africa where African penguins live in large colonies. At Living Coasts, you can get an insight into how these amazing animals live in the natural world. The penguins are all free roaming and often explore the visitor boardwalks using their very own "penguin crossing". Juvenille Macaroni penguins and some sea ducks also live on Penguin Beach as well as a variety of unusual plants.
Featured Animals
African penguin
The African penguin makes a noise very like the bray of a donkey. They are one of the smaller penguins and almost 100 live at Living Coasts.
Macaroni penguin
The Macaroni is a large penguin with golden-yellow crests. Some of our younger Macaroni penguins live in the water and the rocky parts of Penguin Beach.
Bank cormorant
Bank cormorants are beautiful birds from South Africa which have a black bill and turquoise eyes. They are a threatened species in the wild.
There are 17 species of penguin, each slightly different. All of the species live in the Southern hemisphere and are found on the coasts of Antarctica, South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Galapagos Islands.
