Argentina - Miami City Events and News originally published at Argentina - Miami City Events and News
(6 Oct 2017) It is the time of year for thousands of penguins to gather on a small Argentina’s Patagonian coastline for their annual breeding season.
Punta Tombo sits approximately 800 miles (1,287 kilometres) south along the Atlantic coastline from Buenos Aires and is home to the largest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world.
They come on shore each year towards the end of September or the beginning of October to hunt for their monogamous match and nest.
Both males and females then share duties of incubation and the search for food.
Around 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall and with a black and white plumage, the species are warm-weather flightless birds indigenous to the south of Brazil, but breed in large colonies in southern Argentina and Chile.
While Punta Tombo and its waddling residents come in for particular attention among scientific and conservation communities, it is also a tourism magnet.
During the mating and breeding season, which runs for about three months, around 150,000 visitors from all over the world visit the reserve..
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Argentina - Miami City Events and News originally published at Argentina - Miami City Events and News