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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Gray Gull (Leucophaeus modestus) - known locally as "Gaviota Garuma". They breed exclusively in the Atacama Desert region of northern Chile - but live along the coastal areas of Ecuador, Peru, and south-central Chile (vagrants found further northward).