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.

Belcher's Gull (Larus belcheri) - this species is endemic to the coastal Humboldt Current region, from southernmost Ecuador to northern Chile. They are often found in rocky situations, although it will forage to several mile offshore. Of all gull species in this part of the Earth, they are the most likely to forage in rocks at low tide, looking for various hard-shelled prey. They feed on fish, crabs, shellfish and carrion, as well as seabird eggs and young - and nests in hollows among rocks or on sandy shoreline close to the high tide line.

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Belcher's Gull (Larus belcheri) - this species is endemic to the coastal Humboldt Current region, from southernmost Ecuador to northern Chile. They are often found in rocky situations, although it will forage to several mile offshore. Of all gull species in this part of the Earth, they are the most likely to forage in rocks at low tide, looking for various hard-shelled prey. They feed on fish, crabs, shellfish and carrion, as well as seabird eggs and young - and nests in hollows among rocks or on sandy shoreline close to the high tide line.

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Birds - Chile