The Hoiho

New Zealand's Yellow-Eyed Penguin

By Vernon, Adele & Schneider, Dean

Publishers Summary:
Discusses New Zealand's forest-dwelling penguin, rarest of the world's penguins and edging closer to extinction every year.

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ISBN
978-0-39921-686-2
Publisher
New York : Putnam, c1991.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on June 1, 1991

Gr 4-6 A brief but complete survey of the life cycle of the yellow-eyed penguin, a forest-dwelling species found along coastal New Zealand and on a few offshore islands. Because of habitat destruction and dangerous predators, the once plentiful hoiho, the Maori name for this penguin, is nearing extinction; scientists estimate that only 5000 remain. In a continu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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