African penguins breed year-round among the granite boulders, with chicks seen most months.
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Seabird colony beaches
A beach that sits beneath or directly beside a documented major seabird breeding colony (gannets, puffins, albatross, boobies, frigatebirds, murres, kittiwakes, shearwaters or colonial penguins) -- a visitor could check the species and colony named against the beach's location.
Yellow-eyed penguins nest in the flax above the boulders; chicks typically fledge by February.
Yellow-eyed penguins nest in the dunes above this Otago Peninsula shore, August to February.
African penguins nest in the dune scrub at this end of the Simon's Town colony, year-round.
African penguins from the nearby Boulders colony regularly haul out on this quieter, rockier stretch.
Yellow-eyed penguins (hoiho) come ashore at dusk to nest in the dunes, September to February.
Over a million short-tailed shearwaters return to Cape Woolamai's burrows nightly, Sept to April.
Tufted puffins and common murres nest on Haystack Rock just offshore, April to August.
Little penguins return after dark nightly; numbers peak November to February when chicks are fed.
Northern royal albatross glide past this bay below Taiaroa Head; chicks fledge each September.
Atlantic puffins and Leach's storm-petrels breed on the Witless Bay islands just offshore, May to Sept.
California brown pelicans nest on Anacapa's cliffs above this cove, the species' largest US colony.
Common murres and pelagic cormorants crowd the sea stacks below the headland, May to August.
Yellow-eyed penguins nest near Katiki Point lighthouse, visible at dawn and dusk, Aug to Feb.
Guanay cormorants and Humboldt penguins breed at the Punta San Juan reserve along this shore, year-round.
Northern gannets from Bass Rock's huge colony are visible offshore, peaking April to September.
Australasian gannets nest on Otakamiro Point above the beach, October to March.
Northern gannets, murres and razorbills nest on Bonaventure Island, visible from the beach, April-Oct.
Atlantic puffins nest by the tens of thousands on Bleiksoya island just offshore, April to August.
Northern gannets nest on the cliffs of Cape St Mary's just down the coast, April to September.
Macaroni and rockhopper penguins land here on sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island, Oct to February.
Humboldt penguins breed on offshore Isla Choros within the reserve; peak nesting is autumn and winter.
Least and crested auklets nest in rock crevices above the beach, May to August.
Thick-billed and common murres crowd the cliffs above this St Paul Island beach, June to August.
King, gentoo and Magellanic penguins all breed on this open sand, king penguins year-round.