Chinstrap penguins live mostly on South Orkney, South Shetland, the South Sandwich Islands and along the east coast of the Peninsula. The chinstrap can be recognized by the thin band of black plumage under his chin. He is not big. He is on average 68 centimetres tall and weighs 4.5 kilograms. The chinstrap penguin population would count about ten million souls. Chinstraps eat mostly krill. Chinstrap penguins nest on steep, rocky slopes. They are noisy and aggressive. They aren't very popular with the Adelie penguins for they like to grab their breeding nests in their colonies. The female chinstrap lays every year two eggs, which she hatches with the male (in turn, not at the same time). Nine weeks after their birth the chicks already leave the colony.

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