Tag: Magellanic penguins

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:03 UTC

  Chubut court releases Punta Tombo Massacre perpetrator on parole

  

  Chubut agribusinessman Ricardo La Regina was handed down a three-year sentence by a three-judge court in the city of Rawson for the 2021 killing of a colony of Magellanic penguins in the Punta Tombo reservation.

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• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 06:16 UTC

  Meet the Falkland Islands penguins

  

  By Chloe May - On 25 April every year, people around the world celebrate World Penguin Day - a day to raise awareness of the plight these flightless birds are currently facing. This takes place at the same time as the annual northern migration of Antarctica’s Adelie penguins and was created as a way for researchers at an American research centre on Ross Island to pass time and raise awareness.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Magellanic penguins: among the most faithful couples in animal kingdom

  

  Mark Waghorn, writing for The London Economic, and based on a paper on Magellanic penguins published in the January edition of Current Biology, gives us access to some fascinating facts about this breed which is most common along the Atlantic Patagonia coast and the Falkland Islands.