Friday, October 17, 2008

Flight of the penguins: Rescuers return wayward birds home

In Brazil, 373 young Magellanic penguins were rescued, rehabilitated and released last weekend after their search for food left them stranded, hundreds of miles from their usual feeding grounds. The audience is whoever wants to read this article. This article interests me because i love penguins and learning new things about them. No, i didn't know anything about this..i came across it when i was looking for news articles. 3 things i learned reading this article is..
1. Magellanic penguins are warm-weather birds that breed in large colonies in southern Argentina and Chile.
2. The young animals then migrate north between March and September, following their favorite fish, the anchovy
3. The birds are named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who first saw them in 1519.
my question is, what happens if they stray further north?

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