Penguin chicks starve

Wellington: Warmer waters and sediment has caused 35% of little blue penguin chicks to die in Wellington.

After a what was a successful nesting season, 66 baby penguins from predatorfree Somes Island died of starvation during a horror couple of weeks in November.

The season ended with a total loss of 82 chicks, 35% of those hatched. — RNZ