Robert Siegel
Galápagos, 2010
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Enchanting
Santa Cruz
Canon Rebel T1i,
July 30, 2010
Has anyone seen my dentures?
Santa Cruz
July 30, 2010
Saddle front
Hydropathy, tortoise style
Santa Cruz
July 30, 2010
Charles Darwin Research Foundation
Lonesome George receives avian visitors
LG and smooth billed anis
Santa Cruz
Lonesome George eyes a passerby
Santa Cruz
"55"
Santa Cruz
Shell game
Santa Cruz
July 30, 2010
Sea turtles
Yo, dude, just ride the current.
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
August 1, 2010
Marine iguana
Imps of darkness
Amblyrhynchus cristatus
Supplication
Marine and iguana
Captain hook
Land iguana
Lava lizard
When lava lizards are embarassed...
Lava lizard
When lava lizards pretend they are spiderman
Snakes
At length
Up close
Sea lions
Regal
Posing - underwater
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
July 29, 2010
When sea lions sing opera
When sea lions walk
This photo illustrates one of the key differences between sea lions (otariids)
and seals (phocids), namely the ability to use the forelimbs for locomotion.
When sea lions perform water ballet
Española
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
July 28, 2010
When sea lions chill
When sea lions nurse
Yoda visits the Galápagos
Galápagos Fur Seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis)
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Boobies
Blue feet
Red feet
Grey feet - Nazca
Requisite sky pointing photo
My rock.
Best booby mates
Note the eyes. Females have larger pupils.
When boobies take drugs
BFB with two eggs
BFB egg
Santa Cruz
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
Booby baby
Española
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
hey, you talkin to me?
avian torpedoes
Three Nazca
formerly know as masked boobies
Nazca abandoned
In a process know as siblicide, this young bird was pushed from the nest.
The parent bird passively watches the inevitable demise of its offspring.
Facing Nazca
Watching the in-flight booby
Red footed booby
Red-footed Booby ((Sula sula)
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
Canon T1i,
Booby baby
Why birds do not need to go to the dentist
Red-footed booby baby
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
Canon T1i,
RFB adolescent
Frigates
In flight
Frigate feathers
Frigate baby
Interspecies quarrel
Penguins
Pinguino
Things are looking up
I can fly
Santa Cruz
Canon D10 underwater camera,
August 2, 2010
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Beaks of affection
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Head shot
Española (Hood)
July 28, 2010
Española Island
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
Baby albatross
Española Island
Canon Eos 50D,
July 28, 2010
Yellow warbler
Santa Cruz
Short-eared owl
On the look out for petrels
Asio flammeus
Santa Cruz
Mockingbird
"You mocking me??"
Santa Cruz
"Darwin's finches"
Darwin's "finches" represent a remarkable series of species that inhabit the
Galápagos and Cocos Islands. They have diverged from the original
colonizing
species to give rise to around 15 species that differ in their morphology and
habits.
Darwin did not recognize their common origin, but was rather informed of this
fact by his colleague John Gould.
I experienced a bit of a revelation myself in learning that Darwin's
"finches" are no longer classified as true finches, but rather as tanangers!
in the family Thraupidae.
In short, Darwin's finches are neither finches, nor Darwin's.
Gould's revelation
Galápagos hawk
Two hawks
A quickie
American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
Has anyone seen any oysters
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Galapagos Flycatcher (Myiarchus magnirostris)
Has anyone seen any flies
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Gulls
Fish - it's what's on the menu
Galapagos lava gull
(Leucophaeus fuliginosus)
Santa Cruz
Mine, mine. mine, mine, mine
Galapagos lava gull
(Leucophaeus fuliginosus)
Santa Cruz
All in a flap about something
Galapagos lava gull
(Leucophaeus fuliginosus)
Santa Cruz
Baby gull
Feathers
Swallow-tail gull and Opuntia
Swallow-tail gull,
(Creagrus furcatus)
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
When nocturnal gulls have too much to drink the night before
Swallow-tail gull,
(Creagrus furcatus)
Genovesa
July 31, 2010
Canon T1i
Pelican
Its beak can hold more than its belly can
Santa Cruz
Its eyes hold even more
Santa Cruz
Pelican perched in Mangrove
Santa Cruz
Ducks
White cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
White cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
Santa Cruz
Heron
Great blue reflected
Santa Cruz
Great blue and lighthouse
Yellow crowned night heron - in the day without crown
Avian evidence
Santa Cruz
Fish
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
July 31, 2010
Angelic
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
July 28, 2010
White tipped reef shark
Canon Powershot D10 underwater camera,
July 28, 2010
Manta
Sally Lightfoot
Sally does her impression of Bill
Santiago Island
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Sea stars
Sea cucumber
Isabela
Canon D10 underwater camera,
August 1, 2010
Urchin
Large insect
Cactus
Its bark is as bad as its bite
Santa Cruz
Two tone
Las Grietas, Santa Cruz
Lava cactus
Flora
Solitary mangrove
Goat's head
James Island
August 2, 2010
Pioneer plants
August 2, 2010
Bartolomé Island
Drifted
Terrain
The blow hole
July 28, 2010; Española Island
Lava
372 steps
August 2, 2010
Bartolomé Island
Small volcanic spatter cones
August 2, 2010
Bartolomé Island
Dry
Rock window
Pinnacle rock
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Sunset
Canon Rebel T1i,
August 2, 2010
Las Grietas, San Cruz
Where the waters meet
En route
Floreana
The barrel post box
Floreana
Canon 50D
July 29, 2010
The barrel post box guardian
Floreana
Canon 50D
July 29, 2010
Vessels
Isabela II takes a bow
I2
The panga experience
August, 2010
A
A contrasted
Unmoored
Isabela II guestbook
Mining gems from the guestbook
Isabela II
August 3, 2010 (Brother's day)
The Trip Itinerary - July 26, 2010 - August 3, 2010 (Brothers' Day)
July 26, 2010 - Arrive on Balta Island from Quito, transfer to San Cruz,
Angermeyer Hotel in Puerto Ayora
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July 27, 2010 - San Cruz, Return to Balta Island to board the Isabela
II;
- Las Grietas
- sea lions, pelicans, yellow warblers, lava gulls, finches, cactus, barnacles
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July 27, 2010 - afternoon excursion to North Seymour Island
- Mockingbirds, sea lions
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July 28, 2010 - Española (Hood) Island
- albatross, blow hole, nazca boobies
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July 29, 2010 - Floreana (Santa Maria, Charles) Island
- barrel post box
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July 30, 2010 - Santa Cruz (Indefatigable) Island
- Charles Darwin Research Foundation, Giant tortoises, Puerto Ayora
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July 31, 2010 - Genovesa (Tower) Island
- Red-footed boobies
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August 1, 2010 - Isabela (Albemarle) and Fernandina (Narborough) Islands
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August 2, 2010 - Santiago (San Salvador, James) and Bartolomé Islands
- Hike up volcano on Bartolomé, view of Pinnacle Rock
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August 3, 2010 (Brother's day) - Transfer from Santa Cruz to Balta and fly to
Quito
With special thanks to our guides -
Carlos, Vivi, and Walter
Also spotted but not photographed: whales, many breeching manta rays
Ecuador
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Quito 2010
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Galápagos 2010 people
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Darwin's adventures in the Galápagos
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Boobies
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Iguanas
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Stanford in Santiago, 2010
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Stanford in Santiago, 2006
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