Redux: The Molt

Tomorrow, I fly down to the Magellanic penguin colony at Punta Tombo, Argentina, to apply some small tracking tags to penguins before they set off on their journeys north. I wrote this post a few years ago at the end of the same sort of trip, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing the penguins make similar progress from being disheveled to sleek.

Brown

Penguins are black and white—everyone knows this—except when they aren’t, like in April, at a place called Punta Tombo.