Conservationists are telling people to be on the lookout for some scruffy-looking yellow-eyed penguins across the country.
The hoiho, one of the world's rarest penguin species, are now entering their annual moulting season, where they come ashore to lose their feathers and grow new ones.
But this landlocked period of their lives leaves them with little energy and makes them highly vulnerable to threats like dogs.
Eiren Sweetman from the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust joins Emile Donovan.
Hoiho moulting season lasts for approximately four weeks, during which time the penguins can't return to the sea. Photo: Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust
