Photographer Captured The Images Of Two Widowed Fairy Penguins

 



Photographer Tobias Baumgaertner captured this image of two widowed fairy penguins looking over the Melbourne skyline.

 

 



 

The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights. It has won an award in Oceanographic magazine’s Ocean Photography Awards 2020.