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Spheniscus magellanicus
(Magellanic penguin)
Magellaanse pikkewyn [Afrikaans]; Magelhaenpinguïn
[Dutch]; Manchot de Magellan [French]; Magellan-pinguin [German]; Pinguim de
Magalhães [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Ciconiiformes
> Family: Spheniscidae
Distribution and habitat
Breeds in island colonies from southern South America to
the Falkland Islands, while it is a rare vagrant to the Antarctic Peninsula,
South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, southern Australia, New Zealand and southern
Africa. Here it has been recorded once at Cape Town harbour, Western Cape in
1998, probably because it hitched a ride with a ship that docked there.
Food
It mainly eats pelagic schooling fish, supplemented with
crustaceans and squid, diving up to a depth of about 100 m, usually less than 70
m.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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