Blog

The St Kilda Penguins blog is where the colony’s day-to-day life, visitor information and practical guides live between the main reference pages of this site. Articles here cover what is happening on the breakwater right now — seasonal behaviour, breeding and moulting updates, visiting conditions, new research findings from Earthcare’s long-running monitoring programme, and the occasional deeper dive into little penguin biology.

If you are planning a visit to the viewing area, the most useful posts to read first are the visiting guides and the seasonal calendar. If you are interested in the science, the research category collects published and in-progress work from the Earthcare volunteers who have kept records of this colony continuously since 1986. If you are just curious about why there are wild penguins in the middle of Melbourne, the history and colony-news categories tell that story in short, readable posts.

New articles are added whenever there is something worth writing about — a major milestone in the colony, a change to visitor access, or a notable finding from the research programme. Quieter periods of the year typically see fewer posts, because we would rather add substance than fill a schedule. Browse the categories below, or scroll down to see the most recent posts.