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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Giant Galapagos Tortoise

    Giant Galapagos Tortoise

    Day 4 of our trip - we are now at Isla Santa Cruz, one of the older islands, where there is a Darwin Research Center. We spent the morning there and then in the afternoon we were taken to the Giant Tortoise Ecological Reserve at El Chato Ranch, in the highlands area. Here's one of the bigger...
    • HelenB
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    • chelonoidis nigra ecuador giant galapagos tortoise isla santa cruz
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Reptiles
  8. Small Ground Finch

    Small Ground Finch

    We enjoyed seeing the giant tortoises and were pleased to find lots of birds around the Sanctuary. Sometimes it's difficult to identify the numerous types of finch, but I decided this was a Small Ground Finch, even though it was not on the ground!!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos geospiza fuliginosa isla santa cruz small ground finch
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  9. Cerro Dragon (Dragon Hill)

    Cerro Dragon (Dragon Hill)

    Day 5 of our Galapagos trip. We were taken ashore in zodiacs for another wet landing, as there was not a jetty at this remote shore on the island of Santa Cruz. We saw 14 species of birds on our walk, one of which - a Brown Noddy Tern, was a lifer!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Landscapes
  10. Dark-billed Cuckoo

    Dark-billed Cuckoo

    Also found at the Distillery, was this cuckoo, another lifer!
    • HelenB
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    • coccyzus melacoryphus dark-billed cuckoo ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  11. Galapagos Flycatcher

    Galapagos Flycatcher

    On our way to see the giant tortoises on Santa Cruz Island, we stopped at a distillery to see how sugar cane was processed to make an alcoholic drink - the Galapagos equivalent of moonshine! Not being that interested in that, we looked around for the birds and got this lovely flycatcher!
    • HelenB
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    • ecuador galapagos flycatcher isla santa cruz myiarchus magnirostris
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  12. Ruddy Turnstone

    Ruddy Turnstone

    Ruddy Turnstone on Santa Cruz island in the Galapagos.
    • AndyS56
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    • ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz ruddy turnstone
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  13. Vegetarian Finch

    Vegetarian Finch

    Strongly curved in both upper and lower mandible
    • njlarsen
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    • ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz platyspiza crassirostris puerto ayora vegetarian finch
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  14. Giant Tortoise

    Giant Tortoise

    Galapagos Giant Tortoise is one of the iconic species the archipelago is known for. We saw them in three different conditions: breeding centers where adults were kept in pens and eggs were incubated to maximize reproduction; large areas surrounded by walls to keep goats and other competitors...
    • njlarsen
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    • ecuador galapagos giant tortoise isla santa cruz
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Reptiles
  15. Blue-footed Booby Flight Shot

    Blue-footed Booby Flight Shot

    One of the first shots of these guys. I was so anxious to get one, I was shooting at every one I saw. I didn't realize that later I would have to be careful not to step on them! lol!! At Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands
    • STEFFRO1
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    • blue-footed booby ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz sula nebouxii
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  16. Band-rumped Storm Petrel

    Band-rumped Storm Petrel

    I took hundreds of storm petrel photos on my recent Galapagos cruise in the hope that I might capture something other than Eliott's Storm Petrel. This is 1 of only 4 photos where I 'got lucky'.
    • nkgray
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    • band-rumped storm petrel oceanodroma castro ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  17. Galapagos Mockingbird GALAP SER

    Galapagos Mockingbird GALAP SER

    This species is one of four species of mockingbirds endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It is the most widespread (more islands) of the four.
    • rdavis
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    • ecuador galapagos islands galapagos mockingbird isla santa cruz mimus parvulus nesomimus parvulus
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  18. Greater Flamingo GALAP SER

    Greater Flamingo GALAP SER

    This lone flamingo was feeding in a brackish pond behind a beach at Isla Santa Cruz. It appears to have had a diet rich in highly pigmented invertebrates.
    • rdavis
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    • ecuador galapagos islands greater flamingo isla santa cruz
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  19. Medium Ground Finch

    Medium Ground Finch

    • Sylvester_b
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    • ecuador galapagos geospiza fortis isla santa cruz medium ground finch
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  20. Brujo Flycatcher

    Brujo Flycatcher

    got lucky on Santa Cruz, Galapagos when this perched right in front of me.
    • rjb25073
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    • brujo flycatcher ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz pyrocephalus nanus
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  21. Large-billed (Galapagos) Flycatcher

    Large-billed (Galapagos) Flycatcher

    • enerprice
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    • ecuador galapagos flycatcher isla santa cruz myiarchus magnirostris
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  22. Large ground finch

    Large ground finch

    Big beak, a bit aloof from the other finches, so the ID is at least plausible. However please don't hesitate to set the reocrd straight if need be!
    • Momo
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    • ecuador galapagos geospiza magnirostris isla santa cruz large ground finch
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  23. Medium Ground Finch

    Medium Ground Finch

    • Momo
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    • ecuador galapagos geospiza fortis isla santa cruz medium ground finch
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  24. World's Rarest Gull

    World's Rarest Gull

    It is estimated that only 400 pairs of lava gull exist
    • luis jelenszky
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    • ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz lava gull leucophaeus fuliginosus
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  25. One of Darwin's finches! ( Vegetarian Finch )

    One of Darwin's finches! ( Vegetarian Finch )

    Taken outside the Darwin Centre, Santa Cruz
    • merrigil
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    • ecuador galapagos isla santa cruz platyspiza crassirostris vegetarian finch
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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