Southern rockhopper penguin may just be a colour morph of the macaroni penguin. Interbreeding with the macaroni penguin has been reported at Heard and Marion Islands, with three hybrids recorded there by a 1987-88 Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition. The southern rockhopper penguin group has a global population of roughly 1 million pairs. About two-thirds of the global population belongs to "E. c. chrysocome" which breeds on the Falkland Islands and on islands off Argentina and southern Chile. These include most significantly Isla de los Estados, the Ildefonso Islands, the Diego Ramírez Islands and Isla Noir. "E. c. filholi" breeds on the Prince
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