The Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes), or Hoiho (Maori), is a penguin native to New Zealand. It breeds around the South Island of New Zealand, as well as Stewart, Auckland and Campbell Islands. Colonies on the Otago Peninsula are a popular tourist venue, where visitors may closely observe penguins from hides, trenches or tunnels. The Yellow-eyed penguin is fairly large, averaging 75cm in length and weighing about 6kg. It usually nests in forest or scrub, among native flax and lupin, on slopes or gullies, or the shore itself, facing the sea.

Yellow-eyed penguins forage in the mid-shelf region between 2-25 km offshore, diving to depths of up to 40-120 m to obtain bottom-dwelling fish species such as sprat, red cod, opalfish, ahuru, silversides and blue cod, plus cephalopods and crustaceans.