📍 Galápagos Islands
Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii)
A powerful plunge-diver, it folds its wings and hits the water like an arrow from as high as 25 meters to spear schooling fish below the surface.
Common throughout the Galápagos Islands year-round, nesting on rocky shores where males show off their bright feet in a high-stepping courtship dance.
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Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus)
The only penguin that lives north of the equator, it survives the tropics by panting, seeking shade, and holding its flippers out to shed heat.
Year-round residents, concentrated on Isabela and Fernandina where the cold Cromwell Current delivers rich feeding grounds.
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