A wildlife photographer has captured photos of what he believes to be a ‘by no means earlier than seen’ yellow penguin throughout a tour on South Georgia.

Yves Adams mentioned he noticed the weird trying king penguin with a brilliant yellow plumage – as a substitute of the same old black feathers – whereas main a two-month images expedition by Antarctica and the South Atlantic.

The teenager could be seen lounging within the surf and exhibiting off its nearly tropical plumage whereas standing subsequent to an everyday black and white penguin.

After the tour stopped off on the wild islands of South Georgia, the 43-year-old photographer and his friends landed at Salisbury Plain to {photograph} their colony of greater than 120,000 king penguins.

Whereas Yves unpacked security tools, a bunch of the often monochrome birds swam in the direction of the shore however one uncommon hen drew his consideration.

Noticing the teenager with its brilliant plumage, Yves was fast to seize his digital camera and snap these photos of what he calls a ‘by no means earlier than seen’ yellow penguin.

Yves, from Ghent, Belgium, mentioned: ‘I would by no means seen or heard of a yellow penguin earlier than. There have been 120,000 birds on that seashore and this was the one yellow one there.

‘All of them seemed regular aside from this one. It actually was one thing else. It was an extremely distinctive expertise.

The photographer claimed that the penguin’s nearly tropical plumage was brought on by leucism, a mutation that forestalls any melanin in any respect from being produced in feathers, inflicting white, pale, or patchy colouration in an animal.

The diploma of leucism can vary from only a few feathers to your entire plumage, from a ‘melanistic’ penguin whose usually white components are black, to a ‘albinistic’ penguin that lacks each melanins and is completely white.

Many species of penguins have a couple of uncommon people with this color sample, penguin professional P. Dee Boersma of the College of Washington in Seattle advised Nationwide Geographic. 

Yves’ tour with Quark Expeditions in December 2019 carried on for an additional eight weeks leaving him with hundreds of pictures to trawl by, which has meant he has solely launched the pictures now.

He mentioned: ‘I would been dreaming of going to South Georgia for 30 years since I noticed my first David Attenborough documentary and I noticed these penguins.

‘It was actually value it, even earlier than we noticed this yellow penguin. It was awe inspiring to see hundreds of those birds on a rock in the course of this huge, wild ocean.

‘It was heaven that he landed by us. If it had been 50 metres away we would not have been capable of get this present of a lifetime,’ the photographer added.