Birds - Chile
These feathered images comprise the summer months, zig-zagging the longest north to south country on Earth. My educational journey along the western slopes of the Andes and the nearby, Pacific Ocean shoreline - from the Big Island of the Land of Fire (Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego), northward thru the Patagonia Ice Fields, Magellanic Subpolar Forest, Valdivian Temperate Forest, Matorral (scrubland), and to the Atacama Desert and high Central Andean plateaus.
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Belcher's Gull - also known as the Band-Tailed Gull - this specimen in non-breeding plumage, for adults display a white head and underparts and blackish mantle during breeding season. Throughout the year, they display yellow bill with black & red tip, yellow legs - and a blackish band on the tail.