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.
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....
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...
I was delighted to find that there are Antarctic Terns (Sterna vittata georgiae) nesting at Godthul on South Georgia where we spent yesterday afternoon....
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....
