First-graders name baby penguin on trip

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NBC/WSTM) - A group of children on a field trip get to name a baby -- a baby penguin, that is.

There were many "oohs" and "aahs" when the Humboldt penguin chick was revealed at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse.

The visiting first-graders decided to name her Magdelena.

The children chose the name from three options, each representing the penguin's Latin-American origins.

Magdelena is the first Humboldt penguin chick to hatch at the zoo this year.

Humboldt penguins are endangered, with only 12,000 to 30,000 remaining in the wild.