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 - drying its remiges (flight feathers). The inner feathers are waterproofed and insulate against the cold waters; however, the outer feathers become sodden, limiting hunting forays to only two bouts of 30 minutes before the bird must return to land to allow the waterlogged plumage to dry.

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Blue-eyed Cormorant - drying its remiges (flight feathers). The inner feathers are waterproofed and insulate against the cold waters; however, the outer feathers become sodden, limiting hunting forays to only two bouts of 30 minutes before the bird must return to land to allow the waterlogged plumage to dry.

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Birds - Chile