10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The next five chapters focus more specifically on Galápagos creatures: huge tortoises; iguanas; birds (two chapters–one on seabirds and coastal birds, another on land birds, including the famous finches); water creatures–sea lions, crabs, fish, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 242

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Under the surface we could sea Oceanic Sunfish and Blue Sharks. California Sea Lions porpoised through the clear water. Thousands of phalaropes and shearwaters were on the water, as were a handful of other seabirds. And there where whales.

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Whales Whaling Sharks Bats 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Pacific White-sided Dolphins , 120 or so Humpback Whales , Northern Right Whale Dolphins , Blue Whales , Fin Whales , and Harbor Porpoises were all spotted to say nothing of Stellar’s Sea Lions , California Sea Lions , and a Northern Elephant Seal. Sadly, it was the best that I got.

Whales 108

Whales Whaling Albatross Dolphins 108