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...
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...
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...
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....
We spotted this Gentoo penguin struggling to get onto a grounded iceberg in a bay at Petermann Island, Antarctica during a zodiac cruise on December 31st,...
Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are found along the entire Antarctic coast but not on any of the sub-Antarctic islands so we only started seeing...
We visited Elephant Island yesterday for a zodiac cruise around the bay at Point Wild, the location of the final rescue of Shackleton’s team back...
We cruised past the world’s largest iceberg, A-23a, this morning and picked up a significant following of local seabirds including this Antarctic...
I was delighted to find that there are Antarctic Terns (Sterna vittata georgiae) nesting at Godthul on South Georgia where we spent yesterday afternoon....
Today was our first penguin day! We spent it visiting a couple of different bird colonies on New Island, one of the 704 islands comprising the Falkland...
We made it to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina today and spent a few hours just wandering around the town and seafront getting a feel for the place....
I’ll end this short Black Skimmer series with a shot of a flock of the birds flying along the shoreline of Cocoa Beach, Florida shortly after sunrise...
Of the gull-like birds I watched on Cocoa Beach last week, the Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) were probably my favourite. They are so elegant and graceful...
