It's about a penguin that has traveled 750 miles from its normal location in the world, the uninhabited Snares Islands 20 miles south of New Zealand's south coast. This is reported by the newspaper NZ Herald.
Exactly how the penguin – of the species Snares penguin, known for its red beaks – has made its way all the way to South America and the city of Punta Arenas in southern Chile is a mystery.
The visit is described as "extremely unusual" by Chilean authorities. Penguins do get visits relatively often, but not Snares penguins, as there are no previous reports of them in the country.
The local population has taken a liking to the bird and given it a bit too much attention. The penguin has therefore been moved to an isolated location in the region to avoid curious people and dogs disturbing it.
It's likely that the bird headed east during the winter, as many birds in the region do.
I suspect that it just kept going east. It had an inkling that there might be more food there and suddenly it was in South America, says Thomas Mattern at the University of Otago in New Zealand, to NZ Herald.
The birds that end up there are often young, between two and six-seven years old and have not yet started breeding and are not tied to a nest, so they have all the time in the world.
