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• - Extensive site with photos, maps, accounts for all species, behavior, and where to see penguins.
  
• - Information on penguin species in New Zealand, including their status and conservation. Also news, games, books, and links.
  
• - Provides links to penguin-related news from around the world.
  
• - Tie-in with the PBS show "Nature." Includes information about Europeans' discovery of penguins, their adaptations, and ways to protect them, as well as TV schedules and teacher's guides for the entire Nature series.
  
• - Species accounts and information on research and conservation projects.
  
• - Contains general facts about penguins, penguin wallpaper and backgrounds, and links to webcams, games, and postcards.
  
• - Extensive site with anatomy explanations, pictures, and animations; taxonomy; photographs and videos; collectibles; downloadables and games. Contains a search function and is available in frames and no frames versions.
  
• - How penguins have adapted to survive in the harsh Antarctic. From the Gulf of Maine Aquarium, geared towards students and teachers.
  
• - Describes the physical traits, breeding, behavior, and natural predators of these flightless sea birds. Also explains the differences between the individual species.
  
• - The Sphenisciform Ring is a collection of websites that contain content about penguin biology, penguin item collecting, and penguin research.
  
• - Maps, photographs, population data and detailed scientific reports on penguins and penguin research.
  
• - Information and photos of penguins and other wildlife of the Falklands Islands. Adopt a penguin program.
  
• - This is article from the Sept./Oct. 1997 issue of International Wildlife magazine detailing the threats that penguins face and each species' threatened extinction status.
  
• - This is a web-based learning activity written for elementary students in grades K-5. It contains information about penguins around the world, animal adaptations, habitats of penguins, photos, facts, lesson plans, quizzes, and classroom activities.
  
• - Large collection of graphics and other stuff related to penguins.
  
• - Annotated photo gallery.
  
• - General information, facts, and trivia.
  
• - The site offers penguin photos by Kevin Schafer, as well as prints for sale and penguin-related links and audio clips. The site is based around a 2000 book of the same name.
  
• - Information on penguin species, such as size, diet, and characteristics.
  
• - Photos of Adelie and Emperor penguins taken over 3 stays in Antarctica (18 months total), in winter and also underwater. Some recorded calls of adults and chicks.