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  • Fifteen Moai, carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1250 toi 1500, against a blue sky. Unlike most Moai, these are facing inland at Ahu Tongariki,Easter Island, Ecuador, South America
    Easter Island 15 Rapa Nui Moai .jpg
  • Underwater image of the giant Galapogos Sea Turtle against the sun-lit black sand of Santiago Island, Galanpagos, Ecuador, South America
    Galapagos-Sea-Turtle-Underwater.jpg
  • A Galapagos Dove sits on the straw-covered ground on Espanola Island showing off its striking bright-blue rimmed eye, mahogany throat and multi-shaded wings above its red feet. Endemic to the Galapagos the dove  is fairly common in the semi-open habitat of the Island.
    Galapagos Dove Solo 1.tif
  • A beautiful juvenile Galapagos Hawk perched in a tree intently watching. His gold and brown coloring is beautiful, as is the intensity in his eyes. What power!
    Galapagos Hawk Juvenile Solo 1.tif
  • Two adult Galapagos Hawks perched on a large rock stand out in the leafless-brush on Espanola Island, in the Galapagos where they are endemic. Similar in size to the Red-tailed Hawk, the Galapaogs hawk is about 47-inches long with a wing span around 21-22 inches.
    Galapagos Hawks 1.tif
  • A beautiful juvenile Galapagos Hawk perched in a tree intently watching. His gold and brown coloring is beautiful, as is the intensity in his eyes. What power!
    Galapagos Hawk Juvenile Solo 1.tif
  • Close up of the pure white head and shoulders of a Nazca Booby, its black-masked, yellow eyes and long orangish-red beak against a blurred, multi-green and brown background.
    Nazca Booby Head.tif
  • A Nazca Booby is standing on a large, lava outcrop preening its beautiful white feathers in total concentration, oblivious of the ocean waves furiously crashing and spraying behind it.
    Nasca Booby Preening.tif
  • Male Nazca Booby, with its orange-red beak wide open, vocalizes as it stands on the rocky, ocean shore of the South Plaza, Santa Cruz Island, in the Galapagos Islands.
    Nazca Booby Vocalizing.tif
  • A beautiful white Nazca Booby standing on a rock ocean-side is stretching his neck, pointing his orange beak in the air, his mask apparent, and preparing to extend its dark-brown to black-tiped wings
    Nazca Booby Stretching 10x15 _2590.tif
  • Close up of a Nazca Booby standing on a rock, in two-thirds profile, showing off its puffy white chest, orangish beak and black masked face against a multi-green background.
    Nazca Booby Solo 2.tif
  • Two adult Galapagos Hawks perched on a large rock stand out in the leafless-brush on Espanola Island, in the Galapagos where they are endemic. Similar in size to the Red-tailed Hawk, the Galapaogs hawk is about 47-inches long with a wing span around 21-22 inches.
    Galapagos Hawks 1.tif
  • Brown Pelican looking very regal as it poses on the reddish rocks of Rabida in the Galapgos Islands. Whith his long neck extended, his long grey beak rests against his white-feathered beast covered with closed wings in shades of brown.
    Brown Pelican Solo.tif
  • Close up of a brown pelican preening. Pelican has its neck twisted to reach its feathers showing off its head, the well-defined, feathered outline around its long, grey beak.All against the reddish background of the Rabida sand.
    Brown Pelican Preening.tif
  • Brown Pelican swimming in the clear, bright green water around Santa Fe in the Galapagos Islands. His webbed feet are visible and his beak is touching the water.
    Brown Pelican Swimming Solo.tif
  • Close up of a Brown Pelican flying across wavy ocean green waters waters in the Galapagos Islands. Wing almost touching the water.
    Brown Pelican Flying.tif
  • Nazca Booby, in profile, stands alone on a gray rock along the shore of the South Plaza, Santa Cruz Island, in the Galapagos, with the ocean and typical island flora in the background.
    Nazca Booby Solo 1.tif
  • Male Nazca Booby is giving his female an affectionate peck on her "cheek" as the couple balance on the gray, black and golden lava rocks of Espanola Island, in the Galapagos where the Nazca Boobys are endemic.
    Nazca Booby Affectionate Peck.tif
  • Close up of a female Blue-footed Booby preparing her nest in the red sands of Rabida Island by picking up a pebble with her beak in order to remove from her nesting site.
    Blue-footed Booby Preparing Nest 2.tif
  • Male Blue-footed Booby, with his wings spread wide and head held high, is doing his best to court his fair lady and entice her into mating with him.
    Blue-footed Booby Courting Dance 1.tif
  • Juvenile Swallow-tailed Gull with three Sally Lightfoot crabs on brown and grey lava rocks in the Galapaogs Islands. The bright red and gold Sally Lightfoot crabs stand out against the dark lave rocks and one of the crabs is peeking out from under a rock.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Juvenile Sallyli...tif
  • With its long wings spread out, a Blue-footed Booby flyes over a beautiful blue ocean in a light blue cloud-enhanced sky.
    Blue-footed Booby in Flight.tif
  • Underwater photograph of sun rays reflect off a sting ray sitting on the black, volcanic sand of Santiago in the Galapagos Islands. Partcles of sand are are on the ray's wings.
    Sting Ray on Galapagos.tif
  • A close up of a Blue-footed Booby standng on a whitish rock on its right foot while scratching its neck with the bent, middle "finger and nail" of its left foot. The flexibility a Booby has with its feet, "fingers" and nails is interesting and apparent. Note that the bird has straw around its beak. .
    Bue-footed Booby Scratching 2.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby standng on a whitish rock on its right foot while scratching the  back of its head with its left foot. The Booby has tilted its head almost upside down and twisted it so the back of its head is very apparent.
    Bue-footed Booby Scratching 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, on the red sands of Rabida Island. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 3.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 2.tif
  • Close up of a female Blue-footed Booby preparing her nest in the red sands of Rabida Island by picking up a piece of straw with her beak in order to remove from her nesting site.
    Blue-footed Booby Preparing Nest 1.tif
  • Mother, father and juvenile Swallow-tailed gulls nestled in the islands red, gold and green vegetation . A mating pair of Swallow-tail gulls frequently stay together from year to year. They feed their chick for about 90 days before it ventures to the sea.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Family 2.tif
  • In tandem, two Blue-footed Boobys with their very long wings make a sweep showing off their tail feahter against a light blue sky in preparation for landing on a Galapagos Island.
    Blue-footted Bobbys in Flight .tif
  • Immature Blue-footed Booby with a white chest, brown head and back feathers and brown feet standing on a rocky surface in the Galapagos Islands
    Blue-footed Booby Juvenile.tif
  • Blue-footed Boobys kissing by touching the tips of their beaks together against the straw-filled, red sands of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Boobys Kissing.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby just took over the parenting detail and is looking none too happy about it.
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 3.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby leaves the straw nest containing two eggs, with straw still wrapped around its beak, as its mate arrives to take over the parenting duties. A intresting insight into parenting "Booby-style." I love the expression on the Booby being relieved!
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 2.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby, with one foot on two eggs in a straw nest, awaits its mate to arrive and take over the parenting duties. The Booby has straw wrapped around its beak and looks a little impatient - almost like it is tapping its foot.
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 1 10x15 ...tif
  • As a male and female Blue-footed Booby dance past each other their heads are in profile, each looking in a different direction.
    Blue-footed Booby Mates Head to Head.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 2.tif
  • A full-body portrait of a mature Blue-footed Booby standing on a red-lava rock on Rabina, Galapagos Island, in the middle of a dried-grass field.
    Blue-footed Booby Solo 2.tif
  • Swallow-tailed standing on brown, lava rocks on an island in the Galapagos. Its breading collors, the gull's head is black and the eyes red-rimmed. It is lovely grey and white shadings and dark swallow-tail are lovely against a background in shades of gray. Swallow-tailed gulls are the world's only fully nocturnal gull and seabird. The species is endemic to the Galapbaogs Islands and prey on squid and small fish.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Solo 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby proudly nestled down on eggs, two of which are visibile, on white island sand tucked in behind green plants.
    Blue-footed Booby Sitting on Eggs 10...tif
  • A close-up of a mature Blue-footed Booby's head and beak showing the white and brown head feathers and the bright yellow iris of the eye against a mottled brown and green background.
    Blue-footed Booby Head.tif
  • Large grey-blue, yellow and gold lava cactus growing on the lava rock found on North Seymore Island in the Galapagos. This multi-colored cactus was the only color visible on this amazing volcanic island.
    Lava Cactus.tif
  • Determined red berries poking through the red-tinted, white sand on the beaches of a Galapaogs Island. Two berries are perched at the end of their short branch emposing a reflective shadow on the sand.
    Berries in Sand .tif
  • Blue-footed Boobys preparing to mate. The female is in position in the nest she just cleared and the male is approaching her from the rear with his tail up in the air. Might add that the actual act of mating takes seconds and is somewhat anti-climatic after the very long mating process.
    Blue-footed Boobys Mating 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. Left foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 4 10x15_...tif
  • Swallow-tailed gulls about to mate with the female looking up at her mate who is standing on her shouldesr with wings spread. The gulls are in full breading collors of black head and red-rimmed eyes. Mating pairs frequently stay together from year to year and feed their chick for about 90 days.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Loving.tif
  • Swallow-tailed couple kissing [touching beaks] with their beautiful breeding colors of grey and white markings enhanced by their red eye-rims and feet stand out against a background of dark lava rocks in Galapagos. Mating pairs frequently stay together from year to year.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Kissing.tif
  • Mother, father and juvenile Swallow-tailed gulls. Junior, almost as big as its parents, is looking for food. A mating pair of Swallow-tail gulls  frequently stay together from year to year. They feed their chick for about 90 days before it ventures to the sea.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Family 1.tif
  • Two Blue-footed Boobys - an immature one in profile and an adult facing the viewer in a three-quarter stance - showing the coloring changes that occur as the birds mature.
    Blue-footed Boobys 1 .tif
  • A full-body portrait of a mature Blue-footed Booby standing on a red-lava rock on Rabina, Galapagos Island, in the middle of a dried-grass field.
    Blue-footed Booby Solo 2.tif
  • A male and female with beaks touching preforming a courting dance against the red sands of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Booby Courting 2.tif
  • Juvenile Swallow-tailed gull showing off its imature coloring of a white head and chest, flesh-colored legs and feet, dark-rimmed eyes and black beak with back feathers in shades of grey, brown and white against a background of brown lava rock.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Juvenile.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting right towards the viewer with one blue foot in the air and the very distinctive look on its face. Background is the reddisht earth of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby preening its wet feathers after having just emerged from the ocean onto the red lava rock of Rabida Island, one of the Galapagos Islands. Notice that its feet are not blue which is typical when the bird comes from the water. As the bird warms up the feet slowly turn the recognizable blue.
    Blue-footed Booby Preening.tif
  • An O'Keefe-like three-quarter profile of a white, partial skull backed by black and brown volcanic rocks of Bartolome Island, Galapagos. It is expected that the skull is of one of the feral animals that inhabited the island and have since been erradicated. Precise idenfication of skull would be appreciated.
    Skull - Bartolome Galapagos.tif
  • Blue-footed Boobys have mated and the female is preparing to settle into the nest and the male strutting with his head and tail in the air seemingly all proud of himself. Might add that the actual act of mating takes seconds and is somewhat anti-climatic after the very long mating process.
    Blue-footed Boobys Mating 2.tif
  • An underwater photograph of the sun reflecting on a Galapagos sea turtle backed by the black, volcanic sand of Santiago Island. The turtle is almost out of where he was hiding under a rocky ledge at the bottom of the ocean.
    Galapagos Sea Turtle.tif
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