🐧Humboldt Penguin
El pingüino de Humboldt (Spheniscus humboldti ) o pájaro niño, es una especie de ave no voladora esfenisciforme de la familia Spheniscidae. Habita en el océano Pacífico a lo largo de la costa oeste de Sudamérica en Perú y Chile la que es recorrida por la corriente de Humboldt, desde los 5° a los 41° 55' de latitud sur. Muy raramente se han encontrado ejemplares divagantes en las costas del Pacífico de Ecuador, Colombia y Panamá. En los últimos años sus poblaciones se han reducido drásticamente a consecuencia de la escasez de lugares de nidificación, reducción en la oferta de alimentos, depredación por parte del hombre y, sobre todo, el impacto de fenómenos climáticos severos, como El Niño. De la misma manera que la corriente de Humboldt, el pingüino recibe su nombre en honor al explorador y naturalista Alexander von Humboldt.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 4.37 kg
- Body length
- 0.65 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Humboldt Penguin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.37 kgrecord 4.5 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 4.38 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length0.65 mtypical adult, total lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.65 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Tail length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.11 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatMarineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.4 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Humboldt Penguin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderSphenisciformes
- ›familySpheniscidae
- ›genusSpheniscus
- ›speciesSpheniscus humboldti
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusSpheniscus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusSpheniscus
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