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.

Inca Tern (Larosterna inca) - known locally as "Gaviotín Monja" - this species displays a dark grey body plumage, with white tipped secondary flight feathers, and a white moustache on both sides of its head - and red-orange feet and beak, with a yellow side-shield.

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Inca Tern (Larosterna inca) - known locally as "Gaviotín Monja" - this species displays a dark grey body plumage, with white tipped secondary flight feathers, and a white moustache on both sides of its head - and red-orange feet and beak, with a yellow side-shield.

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Birds - Chile