Humboldt Penguin
Scientific Name: Spheniscus Humboldti 

The Humboldt penguin is black and white like most penguins. But if you look carefully, you will see unique markings. The Humboldt penguin has a broad black stripe on its chest, like an upside down horseshoe. It also has black dots on its chest.  The Humboldt penguin looks much like the African penguin, but the Humboldt penguin is smaller with longer flippers. Also the white band on its head is narrower than the one on the African penguin.
The Humboldt penguin can grow to about 60 cm tall and can weigh between 3 and 5 kg.

This map shows the continent of South America. The dots show the places where Humboldt penguins live. You can see that the Humboldt penguins can be found on the west coast of South America in the countries of Peru and Chile, as well as on the many offshore islands. There may be as many as 10,00 pairs of Humboldt penguins pairs that will lay eggs and care for the baby chicks. These are called breeding pairs.

The Humboldt penguins build nests by digging a hollow place in the earth called a burrow. Two eggs will be laid in the burrow. In years when food and water are plentiful both of the chicks will cared for and raised. If conditions are not good, only the bigger and stronger of the two will be raised. Not much more is known about the life of the Humboldt penguin.
We do know that they like to eat small fish like sardine and anchovy.