Food Habits
Magellanic penguins are piscivores. While their basic diet consists mainly of pelagic fish, their particular choice of prey varies on where they reside. Penguins that inhabit northern colonies, such as San Lorenzo, Punca Clara, Punta Loberia, feed primarily on anchovies. In the southern colonies of Monte Leon and Punta Dungeness, penguins prey on squid (Loligo and Illex species), sprats and hagfish. They can dive more than 76.2 meters while hunting.
Animal Foods: fish; mollusks
Primary Diet: carnivore (Piscivore )
- Laurenti, S., H. Gallelli. 1999. Feeding preferences of the Magellanic penguin over its breeding range in Argentina. Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology, 22: 104-110. Accessed February 23, 2011 at http://www.jstor.org/pss/1521999.
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