Birds

Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is painted in watercolor on the penguin page of Gina's bird journal, 2025. It lives only in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, near the equator. Worldwide it is listed Endangered. Facing the viewer, the bird shows pink skin by the eye and bill base, a black chest band, dark flippers, gray feet and a softly tinted belly.