The photographer said spotting the improbably rarified bird was like come through nature ’s lottery .

There ’s always an extra hint of wonder to be found in nature , even for the people who capture it through a lens every 24-hour interval . Belgian wildlife lensman Yves Adams toldThe Guardianthat he mat as though his sighting of a rarified yellow and blanched bird was like " winning nature ’s lottery . " His unexpected discovery in Antarctica in late February make quite a buzz among nature expert worldwide .

As Adams describes it , he and his team were on a two - month jaunt to the South Georgia peninsula and the South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic Ocean when they tried to land their fleet of gum elastic boat . Wicked waves and high current of air limit their options to a one - kilometer comic strip clog with " K of seals , and 100 of grand of penguin , so we were favorable to recover a pip on Edwin Herbert Land . "

According toThe Guardian , Adams was magnetize by a group of King penguin swimming by from left to right . But , suddenly comment something yellow in the niche of his optic , he focus his binoculars " to see among the chaos of animals , a strange pale penguin " . He and his confrere were n’t sure of its breed , so they watched it for a while as Adams snapped off .

" The yellow penguin swam to shore just in front of us . It gift a small show — flicked water off its feathers , walk up the sand , and entered a dependency of King penguins , " he aver . " The beach is fill with animals . We ca n’t walk through , or commove the animal , or we ’ll be eaten alert by seals . And you have to shape quickly , watch 360 degrees around you the entire metre . So we are golden this skirt resolve to bring down where it did . "

The Guardianreports the dispatch team consulted with Hein van Grouw , conservator at the UK Natural History Museum ’s Department of Life Sciences , who said the penguin could be an " ino - bird " or a " alike mutation " . WhileKing penguinsdo have a small thatch of yellow on their necks , they ’re mostly dark and ashen , which gives them that theme song distinguished " tuxedo " face . This hint of yellow extends much further under the Negro than you could see , " van Grouw wrote . Decreased melanin " becomes lighter in coloring [ so ] you may see the yellowness through it . "

Wildlife experts are thrilled to check of the strange penguin ’s existence . " Van Grouw says the fact the penguin photographed appear to be an adult is trial impression of these animate being ' selection attainment . ' adverse to popular notion , most aberrant biased birds outlast well in the wild,'“The Guardianreported .

disco biscuit partake his excitement on Instagram , writing that " the mechanical press pluck up these pictures , and the phone has n’t kibosh echo since then . It seems we are in desperate pauperism for some laid-back icteric tidings ☀ ️ ! A bad thank you to all of you for your nice subject matter ! "

trial impression that whenever we want to feel just , we should focus our attention on eldritch and wonderful wildlife !