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Galapagos Penguin / Pinguino de las Islas Galápagos

Spheniscus mendiculus

Description:

From Wikipedia : "The Galapagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It is the only penguin that lives north of the equator in the wild. It can survive due to the cool temperatures resulting from the Humboldt Current and cool waters from great depths brought up by the Cromwell Current. The Galapagos Penguin is one of the banded penguins, the other species of which live mostly on the coasts of Africa and mainland South America."

Habitat:

Galapagos Islands

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4 Comments

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 11 years ago

Nice series

GustavoMorejon
GustavoMorejon 11 years ago

I don't remember the exact place where it was ...

GustavoMorejon
GustavoMorejon 11 years ago

Hello Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos. Yes, I did it in 2002 ... looong ago.

Very nice series! Where on Galapagos did you take it?

GustavoMorejon
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GustavoMorejon

Parroquia Tomas de Berlanga (Santo Tomas), Provincia de Galápagos, Ecuador

Spotted on Feb 16, 2002
Submitted on Apr 22, 2013

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