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Paul Dudley | profile | all galleries >> 22 Overseas Trips >> Galapagos Islands 2016 >> North Seymour Island tree view | thumbnails | slideshow | map

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North Seymour Island

The first photographs here were taken within a few seconds with the camera on "burst". They show a parent blue-footed booby returning to feed a chick (about as big as the parent), the chick feeding by thrusting its beak down the parent bird's throat, then the two birds showing alarm at the approach of a male frigate bird which attempted to steal the meal; I could not tell whether he was successful, but the last image in the series shows the boobies in retreat, the frigate bird looking smug.
0210: Parent has returned with food
0210: Parent has returned with food		 0211: Chick asks for food
0211: Chick asks for food		 0212: Chick asks for food; there's a trick to it
0212: Chick asks for food; there's a trick to it		 0219: Chick asks for food; use of beak required
0219: Chick asks for food; use of beak required
0220: Chick asks for food; urgent now
0220: Chick asks for food; urgent now		 0221: Persistence succeeds
0221: Persistence succeeds		 0224: At last, chick gets breakfast
0224: At last, chick gets breakfast		 0225: This is how the chick is fed; don't do this at home
0225: This is how the chick is fed; don't do this at home
0244: They see the frigate bird's approach
0244: They see the frigate bird's approach		 0246: They know what's going to happen
0246: They know what's going to happen		 0249: The frigate bird swoops on the boobies
0249: The frigate bird swoops on the boobies		 0252: The stuff of nightmares
0252: The stuff of nightmares
0254: This is how frigate birds get their food
0254: This is how frigate birds get their food		 0256: The frigate bird goes for the chick's meal, not the chick.
0256: The frigate bird goes for the chick's meal, not the chick.		 0258: Chick misses a meal. Parent cross.
0258: Chick misses a meal. Parent cross.		 0260: All over. Thief looks smug.
0260: All over. Thief looks smug.
0276: Frigate bird
0276: Frigate bird		 0279: Frigate bird and chick, on nest
0279: Frigate bird and chick, on nest		 0282: Frigate bird with chick
0282: Frigate bird with chick		 0354: Frigate bird showing gular pouch
0354: Frigate bird showing gular pouch
0356: Frigate birds
0356: Frigate birds		 0357: Display of gular pouch
0357: Display of gular pouch		 0308: Frigate bird on stick nest
0308: Frigate bird on stick nest		 0290: Frigate bird with chick
0290: Frigate bird with chick
0294: Frigate Bird on Nest
0294: Frigate Bird on Nest		 0295: Young Frigate Bird on Nest
0295: Young Frigate Bird on Nest		 0304: Young Frigate Bird on Nest
0304: Young Frigate Bird on Nest		 0348: Frigate bird
0348: Frigate bird
0315: Blue-footed booby
0315: Blue-footed booby		 0326: Land iguana
0326: Land iguana		 0330: Blue-footed booby
0330: Blue-footed booby		 0328: Blue-footed booby
0328: Blue-footed booby
0332: Blue-footed booby
0332: Blue-footed booby		 0341: Blue-footed booby
0341: Blue-footed booby		 0319: Blue-footed booby
0319: Blue-footed booby		 0333: Blue-footed booby
0333: Blue-footed booby
0362: Daphne Major Island
0362: Daphne Major Island		 0372: Frigate bird
0372: Frigate bird		 0373: Frigate bird
0373: Frigate bird		 0272: Frigate bird
0272: Frigate bird
0398: Blue-footed booby
0398: Blue-footed booby		 0381: Blue-footed booby
0381: Blue-footed booby		 0386: Blue-footed booby
0386: Blue-footed booby		 0388: Blue-footed booby
0388: Blue-footed booby
0379: Frigate bird chick
0379: Frigate bird chick		 0367: Another attack
0367: Another attack		 0404: Land iguana
0404: Land iguana		 0402: Land iguana
0402: Land iguana
0363: Frigate birds
0363: Frigate birds		 0364: Immature frigate bird
0364: Immature frigate bird		 0405: One booby
0405: One booby		 0409: Blue-footed boobies
0409: Blue-footed boobies

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