<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0NP3et_0lrwepoQ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0NP3et_0lrwepoQ00" width="1320" height="743" ></figure><p>PORTLAND, Ore. — A new chick has joined the Oregon Zoo’s Humboldt Penguin colony.</p><p>Zookeepers say the young penguin began "pipping" on March 26, which is when they tap their beak against the inside of the shell. She emerged three days later.</p><p>The fluffy, pint-sized new arrival is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.</p><p>She is the first Humboldt Penguin chick to hatch at the Oregon Zoo since 2020, and is the 192nd since the zoo began breeding the threatened species in the 1980s.</p><p>The zoo said she will likely be almost as tall as her parents by the end of summer, but she will be easy to spot, as she won't get her tuxedo markings for a couple of years.</p><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dKefrprcD6I?enablejsapi=1&version=3&playerapiid=ytplayer" frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div><p>MORE FROM THE OREGON ZOO:</p><p><i>Once they fledge, at around 3 months old, young penguins can swim right away — no lessons needed. Guests can look for the chick among the other sleek seabirds as they dart through the clear waters of the zoo’s Penguinarium. In 2012, the zoo completed an upgrade of the Penguinarium’s water-filtration system, one of many improvements funded by the community-supported 2008 zoo bond measure aimed at protecting animal health and safety while conserving and recycling water. The upgrade saves millions of gallons each year.</i></p><p><i>Humboldt penguins, which live along the South American coastline off of Peru and Chile, are classified as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and in 2010 were granted protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Of the world’s 17 penguin species, Humboldts are among the most at risk, threatened by overfishing of their prey species, entanglement in fishing nets, and breeding disruption due to commercial removal of the guano deposits where the penguins lay their eggs. Their population is estimated at 32,000 adult birds and declining.</i></p></div></body>

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Oregon Zoo welcomes baby penguin, fuzzy gray hatchling joins Humboldt colony

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new chick has joined the Oregon Zoo’s Humboldt Penguin colony. Zookeepers say the young penguin began \"pipping\" on March 26, which is when they tap their beak against the inside of the shell. She emerged three days later. The fluffy, pint-sized new arrival is...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new chick has joined the Oregon Zoo’s Humboldt Penguin colony. Zookeepers say the young penguin began "pipping" on March 26, which is when they tap their beak against the inside of the shell. She emerged three days later. The fluffy, pint-sized new arrival is...