For four years, keepers at Birdland Park and Gardens waited patiently for Maggie, their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg. She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating ...

The main offenders are petrels and skuas, avian predators partial to eggs and chicks. Researchers figure that a king penguin parent devotes four hours and 2,000 pecks a day to fighting off ...

Two endangered penguin eggs have successfully hatched at Edinburgh ... Edinburgh Zoo is home to more than 100 penguins from three species: King, Northern Rockhopper and Gentoo.