This distinctive medium sized black and white penguin looks to me like it was designed by a graphic artist. Its principal distribution coincides with the area we visited, though we only saw one colony during our trip despite the fact its population is estimated at seven to eight million pairs. It lays two eggs mid-November to December in a simple nest of pebbles, bones and feathers; incubation is four to five weeks, the chicks join a creche at three to four weeks and fledge at seven to eight. Since at the colony we saw the chicks were at nest (end-December), I would guess the eggs must have been laid here mid-November -- the early end of the range.