Movements, survival, age of first recorded breeding and the success of rehabilitating oiled African Penguins were investigated using re-sightings of flipper-banded birds. Seventeen penguin colonies between Algoa Bay and Lambert's Bay, South Africa, were visited between March 1995 and October 1999. Flipper-band numbers were read using binoculars and a telescope and recorded along with details of the activity of the banded birds.