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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Giant Coot - foraging in the mid-summer season - this aquatic herbivore, feeds from the water surface and occasionally dives - their diet consists mostly of aquatic vegetation, and they will also graze on shore - adults are considered functionally flightless.