SOUTHERNMOST RECORD OF THE MAGELLANIC PENGUIN SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS IN ANTARCTICA

Marine Ornithology 35: 79 (2007) The Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus breeds along the southern South American coast from Cape Horn to central Chile on the Pacific coast and to central Argentina on the Atlantic coast. It also breeds in the Falkland Islands at 54°S (del Hoyo et al. 1992, Williams 1995). During winter, the non-breeding distribution extends northwards as far as 30°S on the Pacific Chilean coast and to southern Brazil (23°S) on the Atlantic (del Hoyo et al. 1992). There are vagrant non-breeding records from Australia and New Zealand (Marchant & Higgins 1990), sub-Antarctic South Georgia (Prince & Croxall 1996 and references therein), maritime Antarctic Signy Island, South Orkney Islands (Rootes 1988) and Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands (62°10′S) off the northern extremity of the Antarctic Peninsula (Trivelpiece et al. 1987). This last record, of a juvenile bird seen on 17 January 1984, represents the most southerly published record to date. SOUTHERNMOST RECORD OF THE MAGELLANIC PENGUIN SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS IN ANTARCTICA