With strikingly different plumage, a pair of upland geese—ubiquitous as the wind in the Falklands—peer over a lush stand of grass.
Photograph by David Nicolas
A southern elephant seal makes his displeasure at an intruder emphatically known (left); Rob McGill amid the restored tussac grass on Carcass Island (right).
Photograph by David Nicolas
Treeless land and wind-scoured water meet in the Falklands (left); a striated caracara soars overhead (right).
Photograph by David Nicolas
A Megallanic oystercatcher pauses in its hunt for mollusks (left); the author and photographer David Nicolas on Kidney Island (right).
Photograph by David Nicolas
King penguins waddle single-file to the sea (left); Craig Dockrill on Kidney Island (right).
Photograph by David Nicolas
Grass-fringed Carcass Island (left) is home to the charismatic Magellanic penguin, while Pebble Island’s landscape is stark.
Photograph by Michael P. Berman, from GILA, Museum of New Mexico Press
Bill Stripling
Great Egret
Larry Crist / USFWS
Photograph by Nancy Krakaur
David Gluckman
Western Tanager
Ed Newbold
This tiny hummer winters in Mexico and migrates north as far as Southcentral Alaska. It is fiercely territorial and will drive away other, larger hummingbirds from feeders. The males perform stunning oval-shaped courtship flights. Find Rufous Hummingbirds along the Great Washington State Birding Trail.
Ed Newbold
This tiny hummer winters in Mexico and migrates north as far as Southcentral Alaska. It is fiercely territorial and will drive away other, larger hummingbirds from feeders. The males perform stunning oval-shaped courtship flights. Find Rufous Hummingbirds along the Great Washington State Birding Trail.
