Galapagos and the mountains of Ecuador Photo Gallery by Richard Stilwell at pbase.com

Galapagos and the mountains of Ecuador

The Galapagos are a cluster of volcanic island 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the oldest about 3.5 million years and the youngest is still forming. The finches on these island were the inspiration for Charles Darwins theory on evolution and ultimately "the Origin of species". The Galapagos tour was followed by a visit to the Yanacocha reserve at about 12000 feet elevation and the Tandayapa bird lodge about a mile lower in the Ecuadorian mountains.

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displaying male frigate bird.jpg	sapphire vented puffleg,this and the following five birds were seen on the Hosteria San Jaun hotel grounds prior to our flight	great thrush.jpg	eared dove
rufous collared sparrow.jpg	black tailed trainbearer	rusty flowerpiercer	Nemo II getting ready for us
Nemo II amazingly holds 12 guests, 2 guides and 6 crew	welcome drink aboard Nemo.jpg	Peter our local guide born and lives in Galapagos.jpg	another displaying male with female frigate birds.jpg
brown noddy on brown pelican hoping to steal food.jpg	frigate bird chick starting to develop feathers.jpg	John and Carolyn.jpg	megan and Carolyn on way to snorkle.jpg
land iguana.jpg	Nazca booby.jpg	lava gull.jpg	Galapagos dove.jpg
marine iguana 2.jpg	medium ground finch.jpg	Sally lightfoot crabs everywhere.jpg	sea lion ignoring us.jpg
marine iguanas on Floreana	what looks like teeth are actually markings below its mouth.jpg	Darwins lake an extinct volcanoe.jpg	Floreana mockingbird 2.jpg
lava lizard on Floreano.jpg	relaxing on top of Nemo.jpg	sunset on the sea.jpg	small ground finch
Elliots storm petrel.jpg	storm petrel dancing on the water.jpg	blue footed boobies on Isabela.jpg	booby face.jpg
land iguana	Galapagos mockingbird 2.jpg	medium ground finch	marine iguanas soaking up sunshine
pretty booby feet.jpg	lava fields on Isabella.jpg	sometimes smooth but mostly broken lava tough walking.JPG	ropey lava.JPG
sunken lake with volcano in background	another pretty face.jpg	flamingo 8-7.jpg	flamingo 8-7 2.jpg
Galapagos flycatcher 2.jpg	green sea turtle.jpg	lava heron 8-7.jpg	lots of marine iguanas.jpg
marine iguana returning to land.jpg	marine iguanas.jpg	Sally lightfoot crab.jpg	wandering tattler.jpg
cactus finch.jpg	Galapagos hawks.jpg	woodpecker finch	lava lizard.jpg
lava lizard on Espanola.jpg	pretty marine iguanas.jpg	warbler finch.jpg	waved albatross beak structure.jpg
waved albatross.jpg	Hood mockingbird on Espanola	great frigate bird on nest.jpg	great frigate bird false eye appears to be looking at you when its eye is closed.jpg
large ground finch.jpg	large ground finch	vegetarian finch whose diet is primarily leaves.jpg	red footed booby chick.jpg
red footed booby.jpg	white morph red footed booby.jpg	pretty beak coloration of red footed booby.jpg	San Cristobal mockingbird
San Cristobal.jpg	welcome to San Cristobal.jpg	short eared owl.jpg	short eared owl 2.jpg
owl blends in while waiting for a storm petrel to return to its nest in a cavity in the lava	swallow tailed gull 2.jpg	waved albatross 2.jpg	waved albatross chick.jpg
waved albatross with chick.jpg	waved albatross with egg being checked out by a mockingbird.jpg	red billed tropic bird 2.jpg	striated heron.jpg
very large very old land tortoise.jpg	this tortoise has long front legs and long neck and shell clearance for reaching up	large tree cactus at Darwin research station.jpg	white throated tyrannulet
grass wren	masked flowerpiercer	tawny antpitta	sword billed hummingbird
buff winged starfrontlet	shining sunbeam	great sapphire wing.jpg	sapphire vented puffleg
white capped dipper	woodcreeper species	red headed barbet	buff tailed coronet
female red headed barbet	violet tailed sylph	violet tailed sylph	buff tailed coronet
buff tailed coronet	green violet ear	booted racket-tail	booted racket-tail
booted racket-tail 2	velvet purple coronet	velvet purple coronet	purple throated woodstar, almost as small as Cubas bee hummingbird
purple throated woodstar female	brown violet ear	crimson-rumped toucanet	blue-winged mountain tanager
golden tanager

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Nora Jones		24-Aug-2013 14:29
Thank you for sharing your photos, Dick. It was great to meet you and Sharon. Maybe we will cross paths again.

carlogalliani		22-Aug-2013 13:11
Interesting gallery ! Very good work !

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