Today is Sunday, and so we get a batch of bird photos from John Avise. John’s comments and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them.
Falkland Island Birds
On my vacation voyage to Antarctica aboard a Quark ship in 2018, our first stop was in the Falkland Islands, before heading on to South Georgia Island and then the Antarctic Peninsula proper. This week’s post shows several of the birds that I photographed in the Falkland Islands. In retrospect, it turns out that this first stop on our journey was one of the great highlights of that entire voyage.
Cobb’s Wren (Troglodytes cobbi); endemic to the Falklands:
(I sent this photo to Matthew Cobb, who replied, “My wren, which is mine, is very thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end.”)
Correndera Pipit (Anthus correndera):
Dark-faced Ground Tyrant (Muscisaxicola maclovianus):
Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua):
Grass Wren (Cistothorus platensis):
Magellanic Oystercatcher (Haematopus leucopodus):
Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus):
Magellanic Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae):
Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome:
Ruddy-headed Goose (Chloephaga rubidiceps) pair:
Striated Caracara (Phalcobaenus australis):
Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta) pair; the white one is the male:
Black-browed Albatross (Diomedia melanophris):
And at my insistence, John put this one up:
Falkland flightless steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus):
Ahhh … this hits the heights… and just the perfect touch of humour…
Yes, the Rockhopper Penguin has the do goin’ on! I like the Ruddy-headed Goose. It doesn’t look like a goose you’d have to run away from.
All wonderful but I love that Rockhopper penguin! Great hairdo!
Beautiful! Thank you for these unique bird pix.
Such great photography!
Wow! The Rockhopper penguin is so cool! Thank you!
Lovely shots, thank you.
Great photos.
I wonder if the Dark-faced Ground Tyrant is related at all
to the Orange-faced Ground Tyrant we see all the time on tv.
Great pics! Thank you for sharing them.
I’m fascinated by the flightless ducks. They’re very … meaty. I’m on a diet which is perhaps why I can’t help envisioning them on a platter.
Lovely photos. Didn’t know there were penguins in the Falklands.
What an awe-inspiring destination!! Thanks for sharing these incredible and remote scenes. Now I really want to see a Steamer Duck!
More lovely bird photos, John, thanks!