The Flying Penguin is the gift shop at the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony on Itchen Street, Oamaru, rated 5.0 from 5 reviews. Alongside the retail items and gift vouchers on the shelves, the shop is also where visitors can adopt one of the colony's little penguins, or kororā, receiving a package of information about their penguin by inbox or letterbox. The adoption ties back to the colony's own research, which has run since 1993, tracking nesting boxes and breeding success across its growing kororā population as part of wider conservation work for the species. For anyone who's just watched the little penguins come ashore after a day fishing at sea, or spent time in the colony's Discovery Centre learning about them, the shop is the obvious place to take something of that away. On Itchen Street in Oamaru, The Flying Penguin is that stop on the way out of the colony.