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 - this species display a white head in summer (winter it turns brownish gray) - gray body and darker tops - blackish primary, secondary blackish with white tips, forming a terminal line (barely visible here) - tail is gray with blackish subterminal band - dark legs and black beak. They grow to about 17 in. (43 cm) in length.
