St. Kilda Beach
Bayside beach fronting a rocky breakwater that shelters an urban colony of little penguins.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St Kilda Beach in Melbourne follows the little penguins that colonized an artificial rock breakwater built in the 1950s, and the volunteer count that a biologist and a local began one night in 1986. It traces how that first tally launched one of the country's longest-running wildlife studies, still logging every bird decades on. Come at dusk and watch the rocks for the first shapes hauling out of the water.
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