enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Magellanic penguin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_penguin

    Magellanic penguin on Argentina's coast Skeleton of a Magellanic penguin. Magellanic penguins are medium-sized penguins which grow to be 61–76 cm (24–30 in) tall and weigh between 2.7 and 6.5 kg (6.0 and 14.3 lb). [3] The males are larger than the females, and the weight of both drops while the parents raise their young.

  3. List of things named after Ferdinand Magellan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after...

    Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521). The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) is known for leading the first circumnavigation around the Earth. Over 20 things have been named in his honor, including natural phenomenona which he was the first European to observe, such as the Strait of Magellan, and the Magellanic penguin.

  4. Punta Tombo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punta_Tombo

    Penguins at Punta Tombo, Chubut. A pair of Magellanic penguins protecting their nesting burrow Guanaco with penguins. Punta Tombo is a peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean 110 km (68 mi) south of Trelew in Chubut Province, Argentina, where there is a large colony of Magellanic penguins - the largest such colony in Argentina.

  5. P. Dee Boersma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Dee_Boersma

    Boersma's area of work focuses on seabirds, specifically Magellanic penguins. She has directed the Magellanic Penguin Project at Punta Tombo, Argentina since 1982. [ 2 ] She is the founder of the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels, hosted at the University of Washington, and dedicated to the study of sential species as early warning systems of ...

  6. Los Pingüinos Natural Monument - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Pingüinos_Natural...

    The Pingüinos monument was founded in 1966 in an effort to protect the Magellanic penguin from the threat of fishing. Because the penguins feed on the same species that the fishing industry targets, high levels of fishing deplete the penguins’ food source, causing a decline in their population. [4]

  7. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Magellanic penguin

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Magellanic_penguin

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us

  8. Banded penguin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_penguin

    Despite the close relatedness of banded penguin species, the ecstatic display calls of African, Humboldt and Magellanic penguins are distinctly recognizable, even to human listeners. [18] Typically, females respond more strongly to ecstatic display calls from their mates than from other conspecifics. [ 4 ]

  9. File:Magellanic-penguin02.jpg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magellanic-penguin02.jpg

    What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information; Get shortened URL; Download QR code