Galapagos penguin
spheniscus mendiculus latin

Galapagos penguins are among the world's smallest, standing about 18 inches tall.

We saw the famous land tortoises, and even a few Galapagos Penguins!

There are fewer than 1000 breeding pairs of Galapagos Penguins in the world.

Galapagos Penguins protect their eggs and chicks from the hot sun by keeping them in deep crevices in the rocks.

Galapagos penguins live on the Galápagos Islands.

Galapagos penguins have two bands of brown feathers on their faces and their beaks are thin and slender.

Mowbray successfully bred the first Galapagos tortoises and Galapagos penguins in captivity.

Only a few modern-day penguins, such as the African and Galapagos penguins prefer such a balmy climate.

African penguins look similar and are thought to be related to the Humboldt, Magellanic, and Galapagos penguins.

The famous Flightless Cormorant inhabits this island, as well as galapagos penguins, pelicans, galapagos land iguanas, rice rats, and sea lions.

While ninety percent of the Galapagos Penguins live among the western islands of Fernandina and Isabela, they also occur on Santiago, Bartolome, northern Santa Cruz, and Floreana.

We visit a fragrant mangrove swamp, sift for little olivine crystals on a green beach, watch apricot-pink flamingos stepping like soldiers and nodding at their reflections in the lagoon, and see cute little Galapagos penguins, the only kind that breed in the tropics, diving deep and shooting through the water like bullets.

The Galapagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galapagos Islands.