Stats

Lifespan

15-20 yrs

Size

Medium

Diet

Carnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Colony

Biome

Coastal marine

Range

South America

Movement

Swimming

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Vulnerable

About

Humboldt penguins are medium-sized penguins that live along the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile. They migrate from their breeding grounds in the Antarctic to their wintering grounds in the cold waters of Peru and Chile.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Sphenisciformes

Family

Spheniscidae

Genus

Spheniscus

Species

Spheniscus humboldti