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Little yellow warblers were everywhere, too. A fairly common-looking
bird, but still with the uncommon behavior of approaching you at close
proximity. |
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We saw this yellow-crowned night heron on Santa Cruz not far away from the
Darwin Research Center. He was sitting on a rowboat just off the pier
on which we were standing. |
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While we got off the plane at Baltra Airport and we were standing
around waiting for our shuttle bus, one of the women in our group came
back from the restroom telling us there was a barn owl in there. I
quickly asked for an escort; it felt a little strange walking into the
lady's room with my camera. Sure enough, a barn owl was perched on top
of one of the stall doors, and it didn't care about anyone in the bathroom.
It was the only barn owl we saw. |
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You'll only see this swallowtail gull in the Galapagos Islands. It
wasn't that common, but it sure was pretty. |
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This Galapagos dove only lives here in the Galapagos. We didn't see
many of them at all. Notice the brown body and blue ring around the
eye. |
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We saw tropicbirds fairly regularly. You can see their extremely long,
kite-like tail. They fly pretty fast and not really very close, so
consider pictures of these birds flying pretty special. Wish I took
one! |
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The hood mockingbird was pretty friendly. It gets its name from the
island you can find it on -- Hood Island. |
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Floreana had a lake with flamingos. Luis, our guide, claimed that
these flamingos different species because they were pinker than other
flamingos. Then he said that all flamingos get their color from eating
shrimp. So something doesn't add up there. I think they need to do a
little more research on flamingos. |
