| Regular visitors on the beach in summer are the Magellanic penguins from East Island, a Tussac grass wildlife haven, just off the point at the southern end of the beach. Magellanic penguins are in decline worldwide, and that includes the colony on East Island. They are now regarded as threatened. They too start incubating their eggs in October, in burrows in amongst Tussac grass on the island. - They stand 35-38cm cm tall and weigh 4-5kg.
- Their life expectancy is 5-6 years.
- They usually lay two eggs. These are incubated in burrows being kept warm by the parent birds. They burrow for protection and shelter and use the same burrow each year.
- Incubation is 35-40 days. After hatching in the 2nd week of December the chicks are fed by its parents until the 2nd week of March when it will be able to go to sea.
- The parents take it in turns to go to sea to fish for food and feed the chick by regurgitation. They eat small fish, squid and krill. They may swim up to several hundred kilometres to find food.
- They are known locally as Jackass because of their braying call.
- They are migratory, swimming north for the winter. They can travel as far as Brazil. It takes them a week to swim to South America.
- They swim at speeds varying between 6-10km/hour.
- They return to the Falklands in late September and start to leave in March.
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