dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) (02/21/91)
In article <17626@cgl.ucsf.EDU> alonso@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Darwin Alonso) writes: > >Also, if you go as far south at Santiago, Chile >there is a penguin colony near Zapallar (45min. north of Vin~a del Mar), >which I think is (one of?) the norther-most in the world. Do Penguins >make it to New Zealand? Penguins do, in fact, breed in New Zealand, and even in Australia, but those penguins do not breed north of Zapallar, Chile! Zapallar is at about latitude 32 degees, 40 minutes South. Fjordland Crested Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) and Little (Blue) Penguin (Eudyptula minor) all breed in New Zealand, the first two only on the South Island (north to about Lat 42S, the last all the way north (to about Lat 34S). Little Blue Penguin also breeds all across southern Australia, also north to about the latitude of Sydney (to about 34S, again). In Chile, Magellenic Penguin (Speniscus megellanicus) breeds north to about 37 degrees S, and also at Juan Fernadez Islands, well off Chile at 32 degrees S. But the Humbolt Penguin (Speniscus humbolti) breeds from the Valparaiso area (32 S), NORTHWARD to about 5 degrees S on the Peruvian coast. And finally, there is the Galapagos Penguin (Speniscus mendiculus), which breeds in those Ecuadorian Islands, even north of the Equator (very slightly). David Mark dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu