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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Pair of juvenile Kelp Gulls - juveniles are dark brown and mottled, with a blackish tail, dark beak, brownish legs and brown eyes. Adult plumage is usually attained by the fourth year. The specimen on the right very near maturity.