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The Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) is a South American penguin, breeding in coastal Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands, with some migrating to Brazil. It is the most numerous of the Spheniscus penguins. Its nearest relatives are the African Penguin, the Humboldt Penguin and the Galápagos Penguin. Download high resolution version (1024x1545, 419 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Penguin User:Schneelocke Wikipedia:Featured pictures visible Magellanic Penguin User:Brian0918 Wikipedia:Featured pictures candidates/March-2005 Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Magellanic penguin Wikipedia:Picture of the day...
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Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa Orthonectida Rhombozoa Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) Ctenophora Cnidaria Bilateria (unranked) Acoelomorpha Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata Hemichordata Echinodermata Chaetognatha Superphylum Ecdysozoa Kinorhyncha Loricifera Priapulida Nematoda Nematomorpha Onychophora Tardigrada Arthropoda Superphylum Platyzoa Platyhelminthes Gastrotricha Rotifera Acanthocephala Gnathostomulida Micrognathozoa Cycliophora Superphylum Lophotrochozoa Sipuncula Nemertea Phoronida Bryozoa...
{{{subdivision_ranks}}} See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
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This article is about penguin birds. ...
Species Spheniscus demersus Spheniscus mendiculus Spheniscus humboldti Spheniscus magellanicus The genus Spheniscus (wedge-shaped) contains four species of penguins collectively known as the banded penguins, due to their similar coloration. ...
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Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Reinhold Forster (October 22, 1729 - December 9, 1798) was a German naturalist of Scottish descent. ...
South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
Modern Genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For extinct genera, see Systematics Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
Flock of Barnacle Geese during autumn migration Many species of birds undertake seasonal journeys of various lengths, a phenomenon known as Bird migration. ...
Species Spheniscus demersus Spheniscus mendiculus Spheniscus humboldti Spheniscus magellanicus The genus Spheniscus (wedge-shaped) contains four species of penguins collectively known as the banded penguins, due to their similar coloration. ...
Binomial name Spheniscus demersus (Linnaeus, 1758) The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as the Jackass Penguin (after its donkey-like braying call), and the Blackfooted Penguin, is found on the south-western coast of Africa, living in colonies on 24 islands between Namibia and Algoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth...
Binomial name Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, 1834 The Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) is a South American penguin, breeding in coastal Peru and Chile. ...
Binomial name Spheniscus mendiculus Sundevall, 1871 The Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galápagos Islands. ...
Appearance Magellanic Penguins are medium-sized, black and white penguins, growing 70-76 cm tall. They have a black head with a broad white border running from behind the eye, around the black ear-coverts and chin, to join on the throat. They have blackish-grey upperparts and whitish underparts, with two black bands between the head and the breast, the lower in an inverted horseshoe shape.
Diet Magellanic penguins feed in the water, preying on cuttlefish, sardines, squid, krill, and other crustaceans. They drink sea water, filtering out the salt with their salt excreting glands http://en. ...
Sardines can refer to: The plural of sardine, a species of fish. ...
SQUIDs, or Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, are used to measure extremely small magnetic fields; they are currently the most sensitive such devices (magnetometers) known, with noise levels as low as 3 fT·Hz−½. While a typical fridge magnet is ~0. ...
Families Euphausiidae Euphausia Dana, 1852 Meganyctiphanes Holt and W. M. Tattersall, 1905 Nematobrachion Calman, 1905 Nematoscelis G. O. Sars, 1883 Nyctiphanes G. O. Sars, 1883 Pseudeuphausia Hansen, 1910 Stylocheiron G. O. Sars, 1883 Tessarabrachion Hansen, 1911 Thysanoessa Brandt, 1851 Thysanopoda Latreille, 1831 Bentheuphausiidae Bentheuphausia amblyops Krill are shrimp-like marine...
Classes & Subclasses Branchiopoda Phyllopoda Sarsostraca Remipedia Cephalocarida Maxillopoda Thecostraca Tantulocarida Branchiura Pentastomida Mystacocarida Copepoda Ostracoda Myodocopa Podocopa Malacostraca Phyllocarida Hoplocarida Eumalacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,000 species), usually treated as a subphylum [1]. They include organisms such as lobsters, crabs, shrimp and barnacles. ...
A gland is an organ in an animals body that synthesizes a substance for release such as hormones, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). ...
Behavior & Reproduction
 A magellanic penguin at its burrow Magellanic penguins travel in large flocks when hunting for food. In the breeding season, these birds gather in large nesting colonies at the coasts of Argentina, Southern Chile, and the Falkland islands, having 20 nests per 100 square meters. Nests are built under bushes, or in burrows. Two eggs are laid and often both and sometimes only one is raised through adulthood. Two eggs are laid and often both and sometimes only one is raised through adulthood. Incubation lasts 39-42 days in 10-15 day shifts, and the chicks are cared for by both parents for 29 days, and fed every 2-3 days. These birds are very shy on land and hide in their nests while on shore. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x954, 251 KB) Photo of Spheniscus magellanicus (Magellanic penguin) next to burrow on Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, taken January 2001 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x954, 251 KB) Photo of Spheniscus magellanicus (Magellanic penguin) next to burrow on Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, taken January 2001 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects...
Status in the Wild Millions of these penguins still live on the coasts of Chile and Argentina, but the main threats to these species are the vulnerability of large breeding colonies to oil spills which kill 20,000 adults and 22,000 juveniles every year off the coast of Argentina. The decline of fish populations are also responsible, as well as predators including sea lions and giant petrels which prey on the chicks. Image File history File links Commons-logo. ...
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See also Penguin Colony at Punta Tombo Punta Tombo is a peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean 110 kilometres south of Trelew in the Chubut Province of Argentina, where there is an important colony of Magellanic Penguins. ...
Modern Genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For extinct genera, see Systematics Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
References - BirdLife International (2004). Spheniscus magellanicus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 05 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
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