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.

Blue-eyed Cormorant - they are characterized by a vivid blue eye color and an orange/yellow growth at the base of their beaks that becomes particularly large and bright during the breeding season. They have a white-breast, a black back and largely white cheeks and neck. The bill is dark brown and the feet pink. This species grows to about 2.4 ft. (74 cm) in length - a wingspan near 3.6 ft. (1.1 m) - and weight up to around 7 lb. (3.2 kg).

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Blue-eyed Cormorant - they are characterized by a vivid blue eye color and an orange/yellow growth at the base of their beaks that becomes particularly large and bright during the breeding season. They have a white-breast, a black back and largely white cheeks and neck. The bill is dark brown and the feet pink. This species grows to about 2.4 ft. (74 cm) in length - a wingspan near 3.6 ft. (1.1 m) - and weight up to around 7 lb. (3.2 kg).

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Birds - Chile