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 239

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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).

Dolphins 162

Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

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APRIL 2, 2012

Pelagic Scene off Cape Point: Trawl being retrieved This is the best time for close-up photography, so engrossed are the squabbling birds with their feeding priorities as they slow their pace to alight on the surface as scraps and by-catch drifts back along the wake triggering a competitive feeding frenzy.

Albatross 177

Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 177

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FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Flushing Meadows Corona Park–Porpoise Bridge. Oriental Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia orientalis. Hamlin Beach SP–Parking Lot No. 1 (Winter Lakewatch). 01 Jan 2020. Smew – Mergellus albellus. Labudovo Okno NR–Uš?e 05 Jan 2020. Hooded Merganser – Lophodytes cucullatus. 04 Jan 2020. 04 Jan 2020.

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2020 Wildlife Reserve Tigers Wildlife 156