A Striated Caracara or Forster’s Caracara (Phalcoboenus australis) seen on New Island in the Falkland Islands on December 19th, 2024.
We saw a lot of penguins during our Antarctic adventure but there were also plenty of non-penguin birds to spot so I’ll run a short series of those...
A lone King Penguin on the beach at Peggotty Cove in King Haakon Bay, South Georgia on December 26th, 2024. This is the location of Shackleton’s...
A fur seal pup boldly defending its territory on the beach at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia on December 23rd, 2024.
A Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes Giganteus) silhouetted against the sunset sky near the western Falkland Islands, December 18th, 2024.
During three weeks of amazing locations, St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia still stands out as the most incredible to me. Penguins, rivers, glaciers, mountains...
A Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) gets ruffled by a high wind as it sits on its nest on New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December...
A female Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) seen on the beach at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia on December 23rd, 2024. When in the water, and for a period...
Complex patterns in the ice at Salpêtrière Bay, Antarctica as seen on December 31st, 2024.
We spied this cormorant, most likely a South Georgia Shag (Leucocarbo georgianus), fishing in Cooper Bay, South Georgia on Christmas Day last year. These...
Based on a very unscientific glance at Instagram engagement numbers, it seems that people prefer penguins and icebergs to rusty whaling stations so, in an attempt...
A Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) seen on an ice floe at Cape Tuxen, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
Apparently yesterday was Penguin Awareness Day and I missed an opportunity to post one of the many penguin pictures I have lined up. I’ll make good...
A detail of an intricately patterned and beautifully coloured iceberg seen at Petermann Island, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
After a year on land as brown fuzzballs, King Penguins shed their fuzz and prepare to head out to sea for the first time. Here’s one disreputable-looking...
The King Penguin rookery at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia is the world’s largest. The last official count in 2021 estimated 150,000 birds but recent...
Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) were everywhere on South Georgia where the current population is estimated at five million or about 95% of the world...
Aside from one lost individual on the Falkland Islands, we only saw Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) in a single location during our trip. Here...
King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) undergo an annual catastrophic moult during which they replace their entire collection of feathers all at once....
Staying with the Gentoo penguin theme, here’s a nest we spied on the Orne Islands during our January 1st shore landing. This parent (you can’t...
