Woohoo! It’s World Penguin Day and this Adélie certainly seems excited about it. Adélie’s (Pygoscelis adeliae) only live on and in the immediate...
Here’s another of the puffin portraits from my trip to Scotland back in July 2014. We spotted them on the island of Lunga in the Treshnish Isles,...
I found a bunch of overlooked frames while going through the images from our 2014 puffin-watching trip so here’s another. This is an Atlantic puffin...
Apparently today is National Puffin Day so here’s a picture of an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) I took in Scotland back in July 2014 during...
This lone Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) jumped onto a beached iceberg and watched us intently as we motored past in a zodiac at Petermann Island, Antarctica...
We spotted this group of Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on New Island in the Falklands on December 19th, 2024 as they were making their way down a penguin...
Staying with penguins, here’s another image from my favourite location of our December expedition. This was taken at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia,...
I got back onto penguin images again yesterday so here’s another. We spent an hour or so on December 19th last year fascinated by groups of Gentoo...
All this talk of tariffs levied on uninhabited Antarctic islands is obviously causing stress to this poor King Penguin spotted at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia...
A Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) seen at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia on December 24th, 2024. These birds live on the periphery of many penguin...
An Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittata georgiae) adult and chick seen at Godthul on South Georgia, December 24th, 2024.
This rather gruesome looking Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) was taking a bath at Cooper Bay, South Georgia where it and a number of other...
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 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.
