Penguins and Seals from Antarctica

Penguins, Seals and Lindblad Cove from Antarctica but mailed from Australia in 2025. 

 

An Animal IceCream Stand for Christmas

I do believe this is one of the cutest Christmas postcards I have ever seen!  The artist is: Julia Vuori. 

This was sent to me in 2025 from Finland. 

Animals from the Cartoon Movie Madagascar

Madagascar: From left to right, in this Photo are standing:
Marty the Zebra, Alex the Lion, Gloria the Hippo, Melman the Giraffe, on his neck is a crew of penguins (Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, Private) and King Julien the Lemur.

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Madagascar is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and released to theaters on May 27, 2005.

The film tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity and are unexpectedly shipped back to Africa, getting shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. It features the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith; others voices include Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andy Richter. 

Penguins (Macaroni) from Antartica

Antartica - Antarctic Continent
El Pinguino Macaroni (Eudyptes chrysolophus), con sus 70 cm de altura y cerca de 6 kg de peso, es el ejemplar mas grande de esta familia, junto al Pinguino Real.  Se caracteriza por su penacho de plumas amarillas y ojos rojos.   Realiza su reproduccion en la Peninsula Antartica y en islas de la region Subantartica, lejos de la presencia del hombre.  Su población se estima en mas de 11 millones de parejas, 5 millones de ellos en las islas Georgia del Sur.

From an on-line translator:
The Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus), with its 70 cm high and about 6 kg, is the largest specimen of this family together with the Pinguino Real. It is characterized by its tuft of yellow feathers and red eyes. Make your playback on the Antarctic Peninsula and sub-Antarctic islands, away from the presence of man. Its population is estimated at more than 11 million pairs, five million of them in South Georgia.

The back of the postcard also has this written on the back in English:

Macaroni Penguins form part of a family with six species, of which only two live in subantarctic and Antarctic waters, including this one.  The other four species live on islands in New Zealand waters. This species breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula and on Antarctic or subantarctic islands such as the South Shetland, South Georgia, Diego Ramirez, Noir and others.

Fotografia: Colin Monteath  / Daniel Bruhin W.
2014

Christmas Penguines in Scarves from Germany

Fröhliche Weihnachten!
(Merry Christmas!)

This postcard features penguins in scarves with funny Christmas hats.
2014

A Penguin Family

Emperor Penguin Family, Antarctica
2006

Penguins from Wilhelma in Germany

Wilhelma
Stuttgart
ein Park zum Verlieben (A Park to Fall in Love With)

Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt

Brillenpinguine (Penguins)
Foto: H. Spienng
2008

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Wilhelma, built as a royal palace, is now a 30-hectare (74-acre) zoo and botanical garden in the northern suburbs of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is Europe's only large combined zoological and botanical garden, and is home to over 8,000 animals representing more than 1,000 different species, as well as more than 5,000 species of plants.

A Family of Penguins

Pinguins - Macnchots (Penguins)
Panda & WWF

Panda en WWF werken samen voor een beter milieu
Panda et le WWF Collaborent pour un meulleur environment

(a loose translation - Panda and the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) collaborate for a better environment)

This is postmarked in 2008 from Belgium.

Vogelpark (Weltvogelpark) Walsrode (Bird Park) in Germany

Vogelpark Walsrode (Walsrode Bird Park)

The sender writes that this bird park is one of the worlds largest with over 4,000 birds.

This sounds like a fun place to spend the afternoon  :-)
2008

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Weltvogelpark Walsrode (The name changed in 2010) is the largest bird park in the world in terms of species as well as land area. It covers 24 hectares (59 acres) and houses some 4,200 birds of over 675 species from every continent and climatic zone in the world. 

Penguins from the Galapagos in Ecuador

Galapagos - Ecuador

Isla Fernandina (Fernandina Island)
Pinguino (Italian)
Galapagos Penguin
Galapagos Pinguin (Filipeno)
Manchot des Galapagos (Galapagos Penguin in French)
Spheniscus mendiculos (Scientific name for Galapagos Penguin)

Photo: Jaime Dominguez Rodas - 1999

This postcard was postmarked, but the stamp is missing.

The sender writes:

Hi -
All going well.  We got upgraded to another boat - Galapagos Advent.  15 people - nice group 6 Germans 1 Brit, 2 Spanish, 3 Swedish boys and 4 Americans.  Food and accommodations good. This is our 4th day of 8 and have 44 birds!  Not many left for the last 4 days.  Snorkeling has been fun.  Also relaxing - Looking forward to the mainland.  Swam With The Penguins

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Fernandina Island (formerly known in English as Narborough Island, after John Narborough) is the third largest, and youngest, island of the Galápagos Islands.

The island is an active shield volcano that has been erupting since April 11, 2009.  It is the westernmost of the islands in the archipelago.

Elephant on an Airplane

You're charging me for TWO seats; an extra fee for my trunk, and now you've stopped giving out peanuts! ... And you call yourself a JUMBO jet!

Original Art by Dan Reynolds
2012

Penguins from France, Jean Claude Bacle

Les pingouins (The Penguins)
Jean Claude Bacle
2010

Rockhopper Penguins

Rockhopper Penguin
The rockhopper penguin is distinguished by its bright yellow feather crests, distinct red eyes and reddish bills.

Photographer - William Bernard
2011