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Galapagos Bird watching (Land Based)

Santa Cruz island has 986 square kilometers (380 sq-mi) and a maximum altitude of 864 meters (2,835 ft). It has an approximate populations of 18,000 people who live mostly around Puerto Ayora and some in Santa Rosa, which is like a farming community in the highlands. We can visit the following places depending on which tour you take:  Charles Darwin Research Station, Tortuga Bay, also some higher altitude places like Los Gemelos (sink holes), Media Luna, and the Natural Sanctuary for Giant Tortoises.

Isabela island with 4,640 square kilometers (1,790 sq-mi) is the largest of all which resulted from the fusion of six large volcanoes. The maximum altitude is 1,707 meters (5,600 ft) at volcano Wolf, which also lies in the equatorial line.  This is considered one of the most volcanically active places in the world with a 12 km massive caldera at volcano Sierra Negra. It has a small population of about 2200 people. We stayed in Puerto Villamil, where we racked up some of the best photographs on our trip and was our favorite of all the islands. Together we will visit: Sierra Negra volcano, Baltazar inland wetlands, white sandy beaches, Concha perla, Las Tintoreras, and the Giant Toroise Breeding Center.

In San Cristobal (Chatham) we stay at Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, which is the capital of the Galapagos Province.  This Island is 558 sq-km (215 sq-mi) and has an approximate population of  10,000 people.  This is the only place where you can see the Chathman Mokingbird and also is the only place where we saw the Swallow-tailed Gull.  We will visit Tijeretas Hill, Beach of Love, The Loberia Beach, El Junco Lake, Playa Puerto Chino.

A visit to Floreana includes a visit to the highlands in search of the Medium Tree Finch which is endemic to this island. The Floreana Mockingbird can only be seen at an island nearby and would require special arrangements.

Here are some of the wonderful pictures that we managed to take on our first birding land based tour of the Archipelago Galapagos.

BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY AT SANTA CRUZ Brown Pelican Great Blue Heron Lava Gull Galapagos Dove Magnificent Frigatebird Galapagos Shearwater Sanderling Nazca Booby Gull sp. Lava Gull Lava Gull Galapagos flycatcher Large Ground-Finch Geospiza magnirostris Large Ground-Finch Geospiza magnirostris Medium Ground-Finch Geospiza fortis Medium Ground-Finch Geospiza fortis Large Tree-finch Camarhynchus psittacula Small Tree-finch Camarhynchus parvulus Small Tree-finch Camarhynchus parvulus Common Cactus-Finch Geospiza scandens Vegetarian Finch Camarhynchus crassirostris Galapagos Mockingbird Galapagos Mockingbird Galapagos Mockingbird

BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY AT ISABELA Galapagos Hawk Black-necked Stilt and yung Black-necked Stilt yung American Oystercatcher Blue-footed Booby Brown Noddy Greater Flamingo Common Gallinule Galapagos Penguin Wandering Tattler Semipalmated Plover Black-bellied Plover Lava Gull Lava Heron Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling White-cheeked Pintail Whimbrel Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel Galapagos Martin Galapagos Flycatcher Small Ground-Finch Geospiza fuliginosa Small Ground-Finch Geospiza fuliginosa Small Tree-finch Camarhynchus parvulus Vegetarian Finch Camarhynchus crassirostris Common Cactus-Finch Geospiza scandens Common Cactus-Finch Geospiza scandens Warbler Finch Certidea olivacea                 Woodpecker Finch Cactospiza pallida Yellow Warbler Sea Lion Animal Planet

BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY AT SAN CRISTOBAL Blue-footed Booby Blue-footed Booby Blue-footed Booby Blue-footed Booby Swallow-tailed gull Gull sp. Lava Gull Ruddy Turnstone Semipalmated Plover Wandering Tattler Reb-billed Tropicbird Brown Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Blue Heron  Great Frigatebird Chatham Mockingbird Nesomimus Melanotis Chatham Mockingbird Nesomimus Melanotis Galapagos Flycatcher Large Ground-Finch Geospiza magnirostris Large Ground-Finch Geospiza magnirostris Medium Ground-Finch Geospiza fortis Large Tree-Finch Geospiza magnirostris Common Cactus-Finch Geospiza scandens Yellow Warbler Sea Lion Wind Generators

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