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3/7 Baltra/North Seymour/South Plaza 3/11 Santa Cruz: Darwin Station & Highlands 3/12: Cerro Dragon (west Santa Cruz) & Sombrero Chino List of Sightings: Birds, Reptiles, Mammals, Fish
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Galapagos
Birds 0307 (17) blue-footed booby masked booby brown pelican swallow-tailed gulls frigate birds (Magnificent & Great) brown noddy small ground finch whimbrel oystercatchers (American) wandering tattler ruddy turnstone semi-palmated plover Audubon's sheerwater red-billed tropicbird great blue heron franklin's gull 0308 (6) yellow warblers (incl nestling) Galapagos hawk [immature] Galapagos dove Galapagos mockingbird common cactus finch medium ground finch 0309 (4) Hood Mockingbird large billed flycatcher large cactus finch warbler finch [mature Gal hawk] 0310 (5) Charles mockingbird white-cheeked pintail duck yellow-crowned night heron lava heron small tree finch 0311 (8) lava gull woodpecker finch vermillion flycatcher small tree finch large ground finch dark billed cuckoo cattle egret 0312 (3) least sandpiper ani penguin black-necked stilt 0313 (5) short-eared owl red footed boobies (& white phase, only 5% of population) wedge-rumped storm petrel (Galapagos) band-rumped storm petrel (madeiran) vampire finch (sharp-beaked ground finch or vampiritos) 0315 (2) flightless cormorant Elliot's storm petrel 0316 (2) striated heron sanderling 0317 great egret ===================================== Galapagos Mammals Galapagos fur sealions Galapagos sealions sei whales porpoises goats ===================================== Galapagos Fish yellow-tailed mullet flag cabrillo king angel fish sargentt major great mickey blue chinned & bi-color parrot fish large banded blenny gold -rimmed and yellow-tailed surgeon fish yellow-bellied trigger fish concentric puffer fish (off side of boat before lunch) mahi mahi (lunch) manta ray white-tipped shark stingray bumphead parrotfish rainbow wrasse azure parrotfish yellow-tailed damselfish urchins: brown spiny, green, & pencil yellow-phase puffer fish streamer hawkfish grioli gringo guinea fowl puffer giant damselfish (juvenile) volcano barnacles limpets orange tea coral Devil's Crown hammerhead moorish idol octopus chocolate chip starfish pyramid seastar tan seastar trumpetfish ghostcrabs hermit crabs stone scorpion fish scythe-marked butterfly fish Sombrero Chino flying fish needlefish Genovesa cornet fish cow-nosed golden ray sea cucumbers prax fish 4-eyed blenny black-finned tuna blue porcupine fish rainbow runner Bartolomé & Isabela black-tailed mullet yellow-tailed mullet (trapped in the pools in the lava flow) James Bay (Santiago) mexican Hawkfish ===================================== Galapagos Reptiles marine iguanas lava lizards yellow-bellied snake pacific green turtles land iguanas |
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