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fairy penguin

noun

  1. a small penguin, Eudyptula minor , with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast Also calledlittle penguinblue penguinkorora
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Now I know that the smallest penguin in the world is called the fairy penguin.

Known as a blue or fairy penguin, the zoo’s first animal birth of 2016 hatched weighing less than two ounces, the Associated Press reports.

From Time

The zoo says the baby known as a blue or fairy penguin hatched at 6 a.m.

"Dorrigo looked up. A large dog stood at the top of the dune. Above blood-jagged drool, its slobbery mouth clutched a twitching fairy penguin."

Above blood-jagged drool, its slobbery mouth clutched a twitching fairy penguin.

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