ARGENTINA is home to Rockhopper, Macaroni, Magellanic and Gentoo penguins. SOUTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUINS are found at 15 breeding sites around Argentina and Chile, with a further 36 breeding sites in the Falkland Islands.
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September is the season for penguins to arrive in Patagonia. This is when they come to breed, with most chicks hatching every year in November. You can see penguins in Argentina between September and mid-March.
While there are plenty of tours in Ushuaia that will allow you to see the penguins from afar and on a boat, Piratour is the only tour allowed to bring a small and highly limited group of people to walk amongst the penguins on Martillo Island.
But when should you go to Antarctica to see penguins? Trips to Antarctica travel between November and March yet it's important to know exactly which penguins are doing what during which months so you don't go at a time when penguin viewing will be less than stellar. November is a beautiful time to go to Antarctica.
The Chubut steamer duck or white-headed flightless steamer duck (Tachyeres leucocephalus ) is a flightless duck endemic to Argentina.It is the most recently recognized species of steamer duck, being described only in 1981.