21-DEC-2013
Upland Goose Female protecting Goslings from Skua attack
This Upland Goose Female called and spread her wings to gather her goslings under her body to protect them from a Brown Skua attack.
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21-DEC-2013
Magellanic Penguin
A Magellanic Penguin resting in the grass.
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21-DEC-2013
Magellanic Penguin
A Magellanic Penguin walking through the island grasses.
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21-DEC-2013
Magellanic Penguin
A juvenile Magellanic Penguin walking on the beach.
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21-DEC-2013
Magellanic Penguin
Juvenile Magellanic Penguin resting on the beach.
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21-DEC-2013
Magellanic Penguin with a Chick
A Magellanic Penguin with a Chick resting outside their burrow.
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21-DEC-2013
Braying Magellanic Penguin
Magellanic Penguins are in the Jackass family because of their braying sounds. This Magellanic Penguin brayed for over a minute.
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21-DEC-2013
Gentoo & King Penguins
Two King Penguins and a number of nesting Gentoo Penguins with Chicks were in the middle of the Magellanic colony.
Unlike the Magellanic which nest in burrows, both the King and Gentoo makes their nests on the ground.
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21-DEC-2013
Nesting Brown Skua
This Brown Skua was nesting in the middle of the Magellanic Penguin Colony.
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22-DEC-2013
Upland Male Goose
December 22nd we took a tour of Tierra del Fuego National Park arranged by Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris.
Tierra del Fuego National Park is a large Argentina National park to the west and north of Ushuaia along the Chilean border.
Our luggage was sent ahead from the hotel to the Ortelius and by 5:00 pm we were boarding the Ortelius.
Shown is a photograph of a Male Upland Goose.
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22-DEC-2013
Ashy-headed Goose
We were able to catch a photograph of the Ashy-headed Goose while visiting Tierra del Fuego National Park.
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22-DEC-2013
Ortelius - Our Ship
Our ship, the Ortelius is shown in this photograph.
The Ortelius was our home for 26 days.
Note the staircase descending down the side - this is how we boarded into the Zodiacs which were lowered by a crane from an upper deck storage area.
The photograph was actually taken on January 3, 2014 in Cooper Bay on South Georgia Island.
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