Are Little Penguins Native To Australia
. Native to Australia and the smallest of their species at just 33 centimetres the little penguins leave their burrows about an hour before sunrise and swim up to 100 kilometres each day. In Australia little penguin colonies are scattered around the coastline from near Perth on the west coast to Sydney on the east coast and around Tasmania.
They are found right along the southern edge of Australia and Tasmania. The Australian little blue penguins were hard to visually distinguish from the native New Zealand ones and until recently were thought to. Over 4000 of the 32000 little penguins living in the waters around Phillip Island have their burrows around Summerland Beach.
Although the most famously occurring on Phillip Island in Victoria dozens of colonies are scattered on islands from the NSW North Coast south to Tasmania and west to Carnac Island off Fremantle.
Bill dark brown and feet pink to light grey. The Emu and the Cassowary are large birds between 15 meters and 2 meters tall. The Little penguin is a species of penguins which are native to New Zealand and southern Australia. Although the most famously occurring on Phillip Island in Victoria dozens of colonies are scattered on islands from the NSW North Coast south to Tasmania and west to Carnac Island off Fremantle.
