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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Peruvian Pelicans - two of the distinguishing features of this species as compared to the Brown Pelican, is its whiter panel on the upper wing, its more vivid bill colouring during breeding season, and much larger in weight. This image showing both a mature and juvenile specimens. Juvenile can be distinguished by having a brown crown, no distinguished white neck strip, and a much paler breast.
