It’s not all black and white for this penguin.
A “never before seen” yellow penguin was captured on camera by a Belgian wildlife photographer, making nature lovers screeching with joy.
Yves Adams photographed a colony of 120,000 king penguins in South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, in December 2019 when he saw the rare bird, he told Kennedy News.
“It was heaven that he landed with us,” said Adams. “If it had been 50 meters we wouldn’t have been able to get this show of a lifetime.”
Adams’ series of captivating shots show the canary-yellow creature fluttering with its belly in the water and waddling alongside its conventional-looking counterparts.
Close-ups show the penguin – whose color is due to the pigmentation condition of leucism – with full yellow plumage and even yellow chicks.
Adams shared the images of animals on Instagram this week, which made bird lovers swoon.
“That’s absolutely wonderful,” crowed one observer.
“Thanks for sharing this with the world! I’ve shared it with my animal lover child and her friends, ”added another.
Normal penguins often use yellow feather highlights to attract mates, but it’s unclear whether the extremely rare bird’s appearance makes him a golden boy with the girls.
“We were so lucky that the bird ended up exactly where we were,” Adams said. [It was] never seen before. “