Colonies are large with hundreds or thousands of birds. They are located in areas tussock flats where the ground is flat or only slightly raised and where land generally slopes to accessible beach. King penguins don't make nests. In November the female lays a single egg within a colony on tussock flats. The male holds the egg on his foot covering it with a fold of abdominal skin.
Chicks are brooded for thirty days, they stay with their parents for almost a year.
The King penguin produce twao chick every three years. They breed North of pack ice on the subanarctic islsands. King penguins are not migratory. Most of the other penguins species breed during the summer in one location and spend their winter in other locations. Candi, Nicole, Muriel, Victoria, Manzanita The King penguin has brown eyes and his beak is black.