With one island’s losses, the king penguin species shrinks by a third
It’s unclear what has happened to what was the largest of king penguin colonies in the 1980s
![king penguins taken in 1982](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/080118_SM_king-penguin_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
WHEN KINGS RULED The largest colony of king penguins (shown in 1982) once had some 500,000 pairs of breeding birds a season, but recently discovered losses are so big they could affect the species’ total population.
J.C. Stahl