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WAVED ALBATROSS BY GASTON CASSUS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE A LARGER VIEW OR MORE OF GASTON'S PHOTOS, PLEASE CLICK HERE > About the photo... Gaston says... This was our first time in Galapagos and we had to choose northern or southern islands to pick a tour. We chose southern islands, including Española Island, one of the prefered for birders.
Once in Española, we were able to see thousand of birds: Blue footed and nazca boobies, galapagos hawk, red-billed tropicbirds, frigatebirds, swallow-tailed gulls, hood mockingbirds, several Darwin's finches and the Waved Albatross, one of the birdswe were hoping to watch, and with luck, to watch them close to us.
We went very close to a reef, where you can see the albatross and the boobies flying so close of you, you think you can almost touch them. A few meters away, a pair of albatross courting, or maybe dancing, clashing their beaks, moving their wings and making noises.
Galapagos is a must for all the birders in the world and the Waved Albatross one of the icons of the islands. Camera Canon EOS 7D Exposure 1/1000 Focal Length 400mm ISO 640 Shutter speed f/11 About the bird species... The Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata), also known as Galapagos Albatross, is the only member of the Diomedeidae family located in the tropics. When they forage, the Waved Albatross follow straight paths to a single site off the coast of Peru, about 1,000 km (620 mi) distant to the east. During the non-breeding season, these birds reside primarily in the areas of the Ecuador and Peruvian coasts. The primary food sources of the Waved Albatross are fish, squid, and crustaceans. But they have also been observed to scavenge for other food sources. Waved Albatross are spectacular flyers, perhaps even the most famous. They can fly for hours without stalling and they do this by dynamic soaring. The wind speed near the surface of the sea is much lower than about 50 ft (15 m) in the air. Source: Wikipedia
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at Thursday, 08 December 2011 16:52
A wonderful sighting an capture, thank you so much for sharing ti with us, Gaston!!
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