Background: Punta Tombo is a peninsula (3km long, 600m wide) home to the largest colony of Magellanic Penguins in South America. Some 500,000 of the birds come here to breed between the months of September and April.
While purchasing transport to the reserve I asked the sales-lady how many penguins I should expect to see in April. She thought about it for a moment and replied "Perhaps 500, but it is difficult to say. One day there could be 500, the next day 50, for at this time of year they migrate."
The next day, only moments after getting off the bus, I was astonished to see thousands of penguins dotting the landscape. You can literally walk among them, peek into their nests, follow them.
While they are mostly "shy tender little animals" getting too close causes them to twist their neck/head from side to side to warn you that a peck of their beak is on the way.
The following pictures are some of the imagery I captured during my tour of their colony.
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