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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 PenguinAfrican Penguin : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Sphenisciformes : Spheniscidae Spheniscus demersus Binomial name Spheniscus demersus ( Linnaeus, 1758) The African Penguin Spheniscus demersus , also known as the Jackass Penguin (after its donkey-like brayin, the Humboldt PenguinHumboldt Penguin : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Sphenisciformes : Spheniscidae Spheniscus humboldti Binomial name Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, 1834 The Humboldt Penguin Spheniscus humboldti is a South American penguin, breeding in coastal Peru and Chile. and the Galapagos PenguinGalapagos Penguin : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Sphenisciformes : Spheniscidae Spheniscus mendiculus Binomial name Spheniscus mendiculus Sundevall, 1871 The Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus is a penguin endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It is the.

Magellanic Penguins are medium-sized, black and white penguins, growing to 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.

They feed on fishAtlantic herring, Clupea harengus one of the most abundant species in the world Photo A fish is a poikilothermic (cold-blooded) water-dwelling vertebrate with gills. There are over 27,000 species of fish, making them the most diverse group of vertebrates., squidThis article is about the sea animal. For other uses of "squid", see Squid (disambiguation). Myopsina Oegopsina The squid is a marine mollusk of the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, order Teuthida of which there are two major suborders, Myopsina and, krillKrill is the Norwegian word for whale food. It is also used as synonym for euphausiids, which are shrimp-like marine invertebrates, important organisms of the plankton ( zooplankton). In the literal sense krill is used as common name for the most spectacu, and other crustaceanCrustaceans Hyalella azteca Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea Classes Remipedia Cephalocarida Branchiopoda Ostracoda Maxillopoda Malacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,s.

The main threat to this species is oil pollution which kills more than 20,000 adults and 22,000 juveniles every year off the coast of Argentina.