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    Galápagos - Floreana Island - Sandpiper ID?

    Hi all, Just returning from an amazing trip to the Galápagos. An incredible experience! Looking through my photos and came back to a peep I couldn’t identify at the time, and still having trouble. Seen on beach near Punto Cormorán on north side of Floreana island. There were two in a pair...
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    Blue-footed booby during mating dance.
    • simonheffer
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    • blue-footed booby galapagos
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  3. Brujo Flycatcher male

    Brujo Flycatcher male

    New name for the former subspecies of Vermilion Flycatcher from Galapagos. There was a lot of fog in the air when this image was taken so it really took a lot of dehaze to pull any colors from this image.
    • njlarsen
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    • brujo flycatcher male ecuador galapagos isabela pyrocephalus nanus
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  4. Sound-a-sleep

    Sound-a-sleep

    Yes. one of these rocks actually is a sleeping sealion. Only in Galapagos ...
    • njlarsen
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    • ecuador galapagos galapagos sealion north seymour
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Wild Mammals
  5. Woodpecker Finch male

    Woodpecker Finch male

    Notice the stick in its bill and notice the dark color of the bill making this a male.
    • njlarsen
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    • camarhynchus pallidus ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz woodpecker finch
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  6. Woodpecker Finch

    Woodpecker Finch

    I believe this to be a woodpecker finch. I am also uploading its presumed mate.
    • njlarsen
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    • camarhynchus pallidus ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz woodpecker finch
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  7. Small Tree Finch male

    Small Tree Finch male

    Another image found among those incompletely processed back then.
    • njlarsen
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    • camarhynchus parvulus ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz small tree finch
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  8. Large Tree Finch

    Large Tree Finch

    A second photo of this species. It might be the same bird (45 seconds between the photos I upload) or it may be different - the light is very different. This photo shows clearly the crossed tips of the bill, which is said to be characteristic of this species.
    • njlarsen
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    • camarhynchus psittacula ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz large tree finch
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  9. Large Tree Finch

    Large Tree Finch

    I was going through some older photos when seeing some I had not decided back then which species they contained. Well, some of them were of this species, and I was not sure I had any photos of it.
    • njlarsen
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    • camarhynchus psittacula ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz large tree finch
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  10. Espanola Ground Finch

    Espanola Ground Finch

    I like this image because it shows the unusual look of the bill.
    • njlarsen
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    • ecuador espanola ground finch galapagos geospiza conirostris isla espanola
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  11. Genovesa Ground Finch female

    Genovesa Ground Finch female

    • njlarsen
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    • ecuador galapagos genovesa ground finch geospiza acutirostris isla genovesa
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  12. Genovesa Ground Finch male

    Genovesa Ground Finch male

    • njlarsen
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    • ecuador galapagos genovesa ground finch geospiza acutirostris isla genovesa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  13. Espanola Mockingbird

    Espanola Mockingbird

    Here's one of the curious mockingbirds on Gardner Bay beach, checking out someone's flipflop sandals!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador espanola mockingbird galapagos isla espanola mimus macdonaldi
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  14. The Beach at Gardner Bay, Isla Espanola

    The Beach at Gardner Bay, Isla Espanola

    This is the long beach at Gardner Bay. This is where the Espanola Mockingbirds come to greet you - they examine your feet, cameras and water bottles!! In drought times they know they can get a drink from the human visitors!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos gardner bay isla espanola
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Landscapes
  15. Gardner Bay on Isla Espanola

    Gardner Bay on Isla Espanola

    On the first day of excursions in the Galapagos Islands, we went ashore in Garner Bay. This is the view of an offshore island surrounded by a turquoise sea! The mockingbirds here will come to greet you, hoping for a drink of your water, during drought times!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Landscapes
  16. Isla Sombrero Chino

    Isla Sombrero Chino

    In the afternoon, we were taken on a trip in the zodiacs, to see this volcanic island which looks like a Chinese hat! It is located near the much larger Santiago Island. Saw a few Galapagos Penguins along the shorelines of other islands.
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Landscapes
  17. Pair of Nazca Boobies

    Pair of Nazca Boobies

    This is the third species of Booby you can find on the Galapagos Islands. This pair were on the side of the path, but did not move as our party walked by!!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos isla genovesa nazca boobies sula granti
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  18. Large Ground Finch

    Large Ground Finch

    This is the male of this species. They have this very large bill for cracking open the biggest, hardest seeds found on Genovesa Island.
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos geospiza magnirostris isla genovesa large ground finch
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  19. Espanola Mockingbird

    Espanola Mockingbird

    On our second day of the trip, we went to Espanola, an uninhabited island on the southeast side of the Galapagos archipelago. The endemic mockingbirds are very bold and will come to investigate your shoes, cameras, etc. In drought times they will come over, hoping to get a drink from your water...
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador espanola mockingbird galapagos isla espanola mimus macdonaldi
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  20. Blue-footed Booby

    Blue-footed Booby

    A common booby throughout the Galapagos Islands. It's so easy to get great photos, because the birds are not afraid of humans, having been on the islands for thousands of years before anyone found them. The archipelago is 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, right on the Equator.
    • HelenB
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    • blue-footed booby ecuador galapagos santa cruz sula nebouxii
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  21. Ascending Prince Philip's Steps

    Ascending Prince Philip's Steps

    Now you see me on the way up the steps. Not too difficult as a good set of wooden hand rails had been installed. Britain's Prince Philip did visit the island twice some years ago. The cliff is 82 feet high. This was the last day of our wonderful trip around the Galapagos Islands! Still have a...
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos genovesa island
    • Comments: 4
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  22. Yellow Warbler

    Yellow Warbler

    We saw these Yellow Warblers everywhere. They are native to the Galapagos Islands and do not miigrate.
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos isla espanola punta suarez setophaga petechia aureola
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  23. Great Frigatebird - juvenile

    Great Frigatebird - juvenile

    This young frigatebird was sitting there patiently waiting for its parents to come back and feed it! The birds in the Galapagos show no fear of humans, so it's easy to get good photos without having to have a really long lens!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador fregata minor galapagos great frigatebird isla genovesa juvenile
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  24. Genovesa Cactus Finch

    Genovesa Cactus Finch

    This was the last day of our Nat/Geo trip around the Galapagos Islands. We went to Genovesa Island on the northern edge of the archipelago. This island is very rugged, being an extinct volcano and on the south side is a large collapsed volcanic crater, forming a bay where we were able to...
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos genovesa cactus finch geospiza propinqua isla genovesa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  25. Galapagos Mockingbird

    Galapagos Mockingbird

    There are 4 species of mockingbirds in the Galapagos Islands. Three of them are endemic to their own islands, but this one is quite widespread over the other islands.
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos galapagos mockingbird isla santa cruz mimus parvulus
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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