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Sea lions
Regal
Posing - underwater
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera
July 29, 2010
When sea lions sing opera
When sea lions walk
This photo illustrates one of the key differences between sea lions (otariids)
and seals (phocids), namely the ability to use the forelimbs for locomotion.
When sea lions perform water ballet
Española
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
July 28, 2010
When sea lions chill
When sea lions nurse
When sea lions pass judgment
Yoda visits the Galápagos
Galápagos Fur Seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis)
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
No me toque
July 27, 2010
Life and death
July 27, 2010
Blue feet
Red feet
Grey feet - Nazca
Green-eyed
Blue-footed booby
Brown-eyed
Red-footed booby
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
Orange-eyed
Nazca booby
Espanñola, Galápagos
July 28, 2010
Surprise!
Blue-footed booby
July 27, 2010
Requisite sky pointing photo
Sky pointing photo
Blue-footed booby
Espanñola, Galápagos
July 28, 2010
My rock.
Best booby mates
Note the eyes. Females have larger pupils.
When boobies take drugs
BFB with two eggs
BFB egg
Santa Cruz
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
Booby baby
Española
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
hey, you talkin to me?
Avian torpedoes
Booby stare down
Female blue-footed booby
Española
July 28, 2010
Booby dance - getting ready
Blue-footed booby
Española
July 28, 2010
Booby dance - step left
Blue-footed booby
Española
July 28, 2010
Booby dance - step right
Blue-footed booby
Española
July 28, 2010
Two Nazca
formerly known as masked boobies
Santa Cruz
July 28, 2010
Canon Eos 50D
Three Nazca
formerly known as masked boobies
When Nazcas get into a flap
Española
July 28, 2010
A little hop
Española
July 28, 2010
Mom, chick, and egg
Nazca Booby
Illusion of innocence
Nazca Booby
Nazca abandoned
In a process known as siblicide, this young bird was pushed from the nest.
The parent bird passively watches the inevitable demise of its offspring.
Facing Nazca
Booby ascending
Nazca Booby
Watching the in-flight booby
Red footed booby
Red-footed Booby ((Sula sula)
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
Canon T1i,
Booby baby
Why birds do not need to go to the dentist
Red-footed booby baby
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
Canon T1i,
RFB adolescent
Frigates
The flight of the frigate
The flight of the frigate
August 1, 2010
Two frigates
July 27, 2010
One has its guler deflated and the other partially deflated.
Frigate feathers
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
Frigate baby
Guler inflated
July 31, 2010
Guler inflated in flight
July 31, 2010
Interspecies quarrel
Penguins
Pinguino
Things are looking up
I can fly
Penguin on the rocks
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Beaks of affection
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Head shot
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Española Island
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
Baby albatross
Española Island
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
Yellow warbler
Santa Cruz
Short-eared owl
On the look out for petrels
On the look for people
"You mocking me??"
Galápagos mockingbird (Nesomimus parvulus) =
(Mimus parvulus parvulus)
Santa Cruz
Mockingbird on towel
Galápagos mockingbird (Nesomimus parvulus) =
(Mimus parvulus parvulus)
Noth Seymour
July 28, 2010
Kanteenager
Hood mockingbird (Nesomimus macdonaldi) =
(Mimus macdonaldi)
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
In the hood
Hood mockingbird (Nesomimus macdonaldi) =
(Mimus macdonaldi)
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Hooded
Hood mockingbird (Nesomimus macdonaldi) =
(Mimus macdonaldi)
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Ship's guest book
Charles mockingbird (Nesomimus trifasciatus)
August 2, 2010
Darwin's "finches" represent a remarkable series of species that inhabit the
Galápagos and Cocos Islands. They have diverged from the original
colonizing
species to give rise to around 15 species that differ in their morphology and
habits.
Darwin did not recognize their common origin, but was rather informed of this
fact by his colleague John Gould.
I experienced a bit of a revelation myself in learning that Darwin's
"finches" are no longer classified as true finches, but rather as tanangers!
in the family Thraupidae.
In short, Darwin's finches are neither finches, nor Darwin's.
Gould's revelation
Darwin's finch
Darwin's finch
Floreana
July 29, 2010
Darwin's finch
July 31, 2010
Anis
Beak experience in the Galápagos
Galápagos hawk
Two hawks
A quickie
American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
Has anyone seen any oysters
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Galapagos Flycatcher (Myiarchus magnirostris)
Has anyone seen any flies
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Gulls
Fish - it's what's on the menu
When you try to talk and eat
Galapagos lava gull
(Leucophaeus fuliginosus)
Santa Cruz
Mine, mine. mine, mine, mine
Galapagos lava gull
(Leucophaeus fuliginosus)
Santa Cruz
All in a flap about something
Galapagos lava gull
(Leucophaeus fuliginosus)
Santa Cruz
Baby gull
Feathers
Swallow-tail gull and Opuntia
When nocturnal gulls have too much to drink the night before
On the wing
Tropicbird with incoming at 11 o'clock
Santa Cruz Island
Its beak can hold more than its belly can
Santa Cruz
Its eyes hold even more
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Pelican close
Pelican
July 27, 2010
Canon 50D
Wide open
Pelican
July 27, 2010
Canon 50D
Ducks
White cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
White cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
Santa Cruz
Dove
Dove
Galá Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis)
July 31, 2015
Lava heron
Great blue reflected
Great blue and lighthouse
Yellow crowned night heron - in the day without crown
Stare down
July 31, 2015
Look at those flamin-go
Avian evidence
Santa Cruz
Tortoises
Enchanting
Santa Cruz
July 30, 2010
Canon Rebel T1i
Has anyone seen my dentures?
Santa Cruz
July 30, 2010
Canon Rebel T1i
Saddle front
Hydropathy, tortoise style
Charles Darwin Research Foundation
Lonesome George receives avian visitors
Lonesome George eyes a passerby
"55"
Shell game
Sea turtles
Yo, dude, just ride the current.
Sea turtle
Marine iguana
(Amblyrhynchus cristatus)
(See
iguana page.)
Imps of darkness
August 1, 2010
Sun worship
August 1, 2010
Two iguanas
Marine iguanas
August 1, 2010
These creatures seem reptilian in almost every way...
except their eyes, which are strikingly human
When iguanas discuss Darwin
August 1, 2010
Ridge-backed
Supplication
Marine and iguana
Captain hook
When marine iguanas are down in the mouth
July 26, 2010
Iguana on iguana
July 26, 2010
Sprawled
July 31, 2010
Sunburned iguana
Espanñola, Galápagos
July 28, 2010
Sunburned iguana close
Espanñola, Galápagos
July 28, 2010
Beauty contest
Espanñola, Galápagos
July 28, 2010
Iguanas stacked
Espanñola, Galápagos
July 28, 2010
Friendship
Espanñola, Galápagos
July 28, 2010
Life and death in the Galápagos
August 11, 2010
Life and death in the Galápagos
August 11, 2010
Land iguana Conolophus subcristatus
July 27, 2010
Galápagos Islands
July 27, 2010
Galápagos Islands
July 27, 2010
Galápagos Islands
Lava lizard
When lava lizards are embarassed...
When lava lizards pretend they are spiderman
Lava lizard
August 2, 2010
Snakes
At length
Up close
Galápagos racer (Alsophis biseralis)
Banded Galápagos snake (Antillophis slevini)
August 1, 2010
Fish
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
July 31, 2010
Angelic
Espanñola, Galápagos
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera
July 28, 2010
White tipped reef shark
Espanñola, Galápagos
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera
July 28, 2010
Manta
Santa Cruz
Sally Lightfoot crabs
Sally Lightfoot crabs
Sally Lightfoot
Sally does her impression of Bill
Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Family: Grapsidae (shore crabs)
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Sea stars
Sea cucumber
Urchin
Urchin
Urchin
Bugs
Painted
Darwin's bee
Paper wasp
Polistes versicolor
Floreana
July 29, 2010
Solifuge
Its bark is as bad as its bite
Santa Cruz
Two tone
Las Grietas, Santa Cruz
Lava cactus
Lava cactus (Brachycereus nesioticus)
Canon Rebel T1i
July 30, 2010
Solitary mangrove
Goat's head
Tribulus cistoides
James Island
August 2, 2010
Plant
Floreana Island
July 29, 2010
Petunia
Galápagos shore petunia (Exodeconus miersii)
July 31, 2010
Muyuyu
Muyuyu (Cordia lutea)
Native
July 31, 2010
Muyuyu berries
Muyuyu (Cordia lutea)
Native
July 31, 2010
Passion fruit
Passion fruit
Drifted
Fungi
Shelf fungus
Lichens on bark
Lichens draped
Terrain
The blow hole
Darwin's toilet
Lava
Lava
Lava
372 steps
Bartolomé Island
August 2, 2010
Almost as many people
Bartolomé Island
August 2, 2010
Pioneer plants
Bartolomé Island
August 2, 2010
Small volcanic spatter cones
Bartolomé Island
August 2, 2010
Dry
Rock window
Pinnacle rock
August 2, 2010
It was unfortunate that we hiked up Bartolomé Island and hiked up at sunset.
Although the light was generally beautiful,
Pinnacle Rock was backlight which produced very unsatisfyinbg results.
Land, sea, and clouds
August 1, 2010
Daphne Major
Daphne Major
July 26, 2010
The Daphnes
July 26, 2010
Las Grietas, Santa Cruz
Where the waters meet
Santa Cruz
July 27, 2010
En route
Las Grietas, Santa Cruz
July 27, 2010
Floreana
The post office
Floreana
July 29, 2010
Letter barrel
Floreana
Canon 50D
July 29, 2010
The barrel post box guardian
Floreana
Canon 50D
July 29, 2010
Carlos inspects the mail
Floreana
July 29, 2010
Canon 50D
Vessels
Isabela II takes a bow
I2
The panga experience
August, 2010
A
A contrasted
Three masted
July 30, 2010
50D
Unmoored
Isabela II guestbook
Mining gems from the guestbook
Isabela II
August 3, 2010 (Brother's day)
Angemeyer
August 2, 2010
A foggy notion of what to expect on arrival
July 26, 2010
Onboard feast
July 31, 2010
Canon PowerShot SD3500
Graffiti
August 1, 2010
Chicken of the Sea
August 1, 2010
August 2, 2010
Sunset
Sunset
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Sunset
Floreana
July 29, 2010
Newly posted, need filing
Floreana group
July 29, 2010
Marguerite and Roger
July 29, 2010
July 29, 2010
Darlings
July 29, 2010
The Trip Itinerary - July 26, 2010 - August 3, 2010 (Brothers' Day)
July 26, 2010 - Arrive on Balta Island from Quito, transfer to San Cruz,
Angermeyer Hotel in Puerto Ayora
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July 27, 2010 - San Cruz, Return to Balta Island to board the Isabela
II;
- Las Grietas
- sea lions, pelicans, yellow warblers, lava gulls, finches, cactus, barnacles
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July 27, 2010 - afternoon excursion to North Seymour Island
- Mockingbirds, sea lions
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July 28, 2010 - Española (Hood) Island
- albatross, blow hole, nazca boobies
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July 29, 2010 - Floreana (Santa Maria, Charles) Island
- barrel post box
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July 30, 2010 - Santa Cruz (Indefatigable) Island
- Charles Darwin Research Foundation, Giant tortoises, Puerto Ayora
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July 31, 2010 - Genovesa (Tower) Island
- Red-footed boobies
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August 1, 2010 - Isabela (Albemarle) and Fernandina (Narborough) Islands
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August 2, 2010 - Santiago (San Salvador, James) and Bartolomé Islands
- Hike up volcano on Bartolomé, view of Pinnacle Rock
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August 3, 2010 (Brother's day) - Transfer from Santa Cruz to Balta and fly to
Quito
With special thanks to our guides -
Carlos, Vivi, and Walter
Also spotted but not photographed: whales, many breeching manta rays
Other relevant animals pages
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Boobies
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Albatross
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Penguins
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Sea lions
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Seals
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Iguanas
Ecuador
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Quito 2010
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Galápagos 2010
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Galápagos 2010 people
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Darwin's adventures in the Galápagos
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