Galápagos Penguin

A blue-footed booby perched on volcanic rock above a Galápagos penguin at the water's edge

Blue-footed booby and Galápagos penguin

📍 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. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird ...

A small group of Galápagos penguins perched on jagged volcanic rock at the water's edge

Galápagos penguins on the lava shore

📍 Isla Isabela, Galápagos Islands Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) The only penguin species found north of the equator, and the rarest penguin in the world — fewer than 2,000 remain, all within the Galápagos archipelago. Year-round residents of Isla Isabela, which hosts the majority of the global population thanks to the cold, nutrient-rich Cromwell Current that sweeps past the island’s western coast. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird