Talk:Magellanic Penguin

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WikiProject Birds To-do: edit MAJOR taxonomic overhaul (see here) Create Galloanserae For new cat: Category:Natural history of the Americas, replace "Hummingbird" article (by Some collaboration, hopefully) an article: along title LINE of: Hummingbirds--the bird of the Americas

[edit] Threats to existence or just life in the real world?

Now, I'm no conservation expert, but it seems to me that the mere fact that sea lions and giant petrels prey on penguin chicks would not be sufficient to bring them to Near Threatened status. That's just life. Now, if there were a sudden explosion in the numbers of sea lions and / or giant petrels in relation to the number of penguin chicks, THAT could be threatening. So which is it? Are the sea lions & giant petrels just playing their part in the Great Circle of Life or are they threatening to wipe out a species? --Mpwrmnt 09:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Run-on sentence

Physical description: "They have blackish-grey upperparts and whitish underparts, with two black bands between the head and the breast are very large, the lower in an inverted horseshoe shape." Xiner (talk, email) 20:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

No, actually just some inane vandalism. I fixed it. --Mpwrmnt 08:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)