macaroni penguins

The penguins are ocean birds, spend much of their lives in the sea where they played with great agility and derive from there the small crustaceans they feed. There are 17 types of penguins, in this writing I going to talk about macaroni penguins, this species is found in Chile an also in some islands of the South Shetland Islands, Subantarctic and Falkland Islands.

Macaroni penguins have a large population, there are about 9 million couples brooding, but despite its large population has been classified as vulnerable, as their population to shrink by 30 percent in the last three generations.

The name macaroni is due to an old fashion of young Britons who traveled to Italy and returned with streaks of dyed hair, very similar to those that have this penguin.