Analyse - Physical features

The Adélie has a black head and an orange beak. Distinctive white rings appear around their eyes during the breeding season. Penguin's tails are short and wedge-shaped, with 14 to 18 stiff tail feathers. Adélie penguins have longer tail feathers, which they often use as an aid when they are on land. their shiny feathers overlap to cover their skin. Penguin feathers are highly specialized - short, broad, and closely spaced. This helps keep water away from the skin. Penguins have more feathers than most other birds, with about 100 feathers per square inch. The Adélie penguin is one of three brush-tailed penguins with a relatively long tail compared with other penguin species.When adelie penguins open their when they are adults there is white around there eyelid. When they are kids they have pinky grey covering on their eyelid. Adélie penguins have the classic look of the tuxedoed penguin made so popular by cartoons. They have pink feet and pink blush on the undersides of their flippers to complete the look.