chinstrap penguins marching anarctica

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Returning at the beginning of the breeding season in October the Chinstraps swim to the ice edge then march across the sea ice to their nesting sites. Howling winds and falling snow made them appear, ghostlike out of the whiteness of the surrounding landscape.