"A young Emperor penguin took a rare wrong turn from the Antarctic and ended up stranded on a New Zealand beach – the first time in 44 years the aquatic bird has been sighted in the wild in the South Pacific country. Local resident Christine Wilton was taking her miniature Schnauzer dog Millie for a walk on Peka Peka Beach on the North Island's western coast when she discovered the bird Monday evening. "It was out-of-this-world to see it ... like someone just dropped it from the sky," Wilton said. "It looked like 'Happy Feet' – it was totally in the wrong place," she said, referring to the 2006 animated musical featuring a young penguin who finds himself far from home. Conservation experts say the penguin is about 10 months old and stands about 32 inches (80 centimeters) high. Colin Miskelly, a curator at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, said the bird was likely born during the last Antarctic winter. It may have been searching for squid and krill when it took a wrong turn and landed about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from the Antarctic coast." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

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