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Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) Chiloe🐧

Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesSphenisciformesSpheniscidae
Birds

🐧Humboldt Penguin

Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, 1834

훔볼트펭귄(학명: Spheniscus humboldti)은 펭귄과 줄무늬펭귄속에 속하는 펭귄의 일종으로, 남아메리카 칠레와 페루 해안에서 서식한다. 마젤란펭귄·아프리카펭귄·갈라파고스펭귄과 매우 가까운 관계이다. 또한 구아노를 만들어내는 새이다.

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Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Humboldt Penguin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.37 kgrecord 4.5 kg · SeaLifeBase
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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 length
0.65 mtypical adult, total length
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.65 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Tail length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.04 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Marine
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
4.4 Laverage
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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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSphenisciformes
  5. ›familySpheniscidae
  6. ›genusSpheniscus
  7. ›speciesSpheniscus humboldti
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
  3. familySpheniscidae
  4. genusSpheniscus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
  11. familySpheniscidae
  12. genusSpheniscus
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manchot de Humboldt (fr), Humboldtpinguïn (nl), pingwin peruwiański (pl), פינגווין הומבולדט (he), Spheniscus humboldti (es), Humboldt-pingvin (hu) … and 24 more languages
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