Talk:Little penguin

message: There's a whole exhibit in San Diego with about 20 of them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.56.145.10 (talk) 04:47, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

message: i kinda like that it has a lot of informations but it does not get to the point of the notes. :) :(
All right, who logged into my account and vandilized Little Blue Penguins?
Targon142 21:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: I visited Phillip Island in July 2003 and saw a penguin parade.  It was awesome.  (Be sure to bring warm clothes if you go.)  We were told the reason photographs are not allowed is because the flash-lights from cameras cause blindness in these penguins.  That is equivalent to a death sentence. --tess 23:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photographs not allowed 

message: Is there an classification for subspecies? Snowman (talk) 21:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subspecies 

message: I'm not sure what the logic of the Maori name of the bird is -- in the English language version of Wikipedia -- unless it is sometimes used in English, or conveys (with translation) some interesting cultural information about how the bird is viewed by the native population.
Will you also include about 20 south coast Australian Aboriginal names?
Will every Canadian animal listed in a Wikipedia article give the French name as well -- and of course about 100 native names?
The fact that New Zealand is a bilingual country doesn't  turn Wikipedia into a bilingual encyclopedia when a New Zealand subject comes up.
This is a kind of assertive Maori nationalism that isn't appropriate in a neutral forum like Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.209.120 (talk) 04:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The rational is that many New Zealand birds are commonly referred to by their Maori names in New Zealand by Pakeha (or non-Maori). Lots of Kiwis, including biologists, use them, and as such they can legitimately  considered alternative English names as well, at least in English speaking New Zealand. This is not quite as common in Canada or Australia. (The extent to which this is true varies for different species, the Purple Swamp-hen is for example almost universally known as the Pukeko, but rather less people know that the Tieke is the Saddleback. Off the top of my head I couldn't tell you the Maori name for the Little Penguin, although it is more commonly called the Blue Penguin here)  Sabine's Sunbird  talk 04:30, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maori Wikipedia? 

message: Excuse my ignorance, but what on earth does it mean by "ear covert" in the description section?
Thank you.
Lil.chocoholic.62 (talk) 10:40, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Feathers on the head that cover(t) the ear opening. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 20:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ear Covert ? 

message: Sad and all, but is it sufficiently interesting or important to note here? Sabine's Sunbird  talk 23:59, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sea World penguins. 

message: Er, why is there not a section about Australian PC wowsers deciding in their infinite wisdom that the term Fairy penguin is supposedly offensive to small winged people or some such rot?  The term Fairy penguin has quietly gone out of the media over the past couple of years for patently ridiculous reasons.   210.9.143.86 (talk) 01:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Added to the intro of the article. It was a big deal at the time, so I agree it should be mentioned. Unfortunately I don't have an online cite, but I did have a reference to the published article in newspaper print for verification. The only online link I found has been deleted, almost as if the paper didn't want the story to exist anymore. Hmm. SJ2571 (talk) 23:38, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

text: It's not correct that this occurred. Little Penguin was John Gould's original name for the species and "Fairy Penguin" was his original name for the Tasmanian subspecies. When taxonomists found that the Tasmanian and mainland birds were the same, the oldest name was given precedence, as is taxonomic convention, and so Little Penguin was accepted. There are still many birds in Australia with Fairy in their name - Fairy Tern, Fairy Gerygone, Fairy Prion, Fairy Martin, and all of the Fairywrens. Not to mention various Boobies, scrubtits and shrike-tits. There is a great book published by CSIRO called "Australian Bird Names" by Ian Fraser and Jeannie Gray that covers all this. Owheelj (talk) 23:42, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming controversy 

message: Why is fairy penguin redirected to little penguin rather than the other way round? Fairy penguin is most certainly the more common term. --121.44.209.93 (talk) 08:23, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Little Penguin is the IOC name, and we use the IOC name. What would be politically incorrect about using or not using Fairy Penguin anyway? Do the wee folk have a history of discrimination? Sabine's Sunbird  talk 18:29, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think you're "allowed" to call them Wee Folk anymore... --Kurtle (talk) 22:17, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political correctness 

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message: I love the cute little penguins, but I have no idea where they live! I would put a range map myself, but I do not have it. Thank you if you put one for me. --TheWikiSearcher (talk) 00:00, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range Map Needed 

message: I have uploaded a photo of a "penguins crossing" road sign in Breaker Bay, Wellington to Commons, if it's of use to the article:  Quilt Phase (talk) 03:02, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zealand road sign 

message: There's a new exhibit at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego featuring these little guys, but Ive never edited wikipedia and don't know how. Maybe someone else could? 2600:1700:A020:970:1487:C35A:92D9:9266 (talk) 03:25, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  New exhibit