Aves · Sphenisciformes
Emperor Penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
The tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species, breeding exclusively on frozen ocean fast ice during the pitch-black polar winter at -50°C, the only bird species to breed through the full depths of a polar winter.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- ENEndangered
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1487 licence-filtered records across 252 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (9)
- Additional Data (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Emperor penguin in Southern Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)