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Seabird City Spectacular

10,000 Birds

The sight, the sound and the smell, coupled with the sheer spectacle of seeing so many birds at once, makes viewing a big seabird colony an avian experience that can’t be compared with any other. Seabird cities are always spectacular. Such a bountiful source of food was appreciated by the Gannets.

Puffins 177
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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

10,000 Birds

The idea is that some finches from what is now Ecuador ended up on the Galapagos Islands, and subsequently diversified into a number of different forms … they speciated … filling various niches that on the mainland would have been filled by a number of different species. That is from Darwin’s ornithological notes.

Tortoises 195