Images Dated 27th September 2016

Patagonian crested duck (Lophonetta specularioides specularioide

Patagonian crested duck (Lophonetta specularioides specularioides), walking on a beach looking for food. Falkland Islands, South Atlantic

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Striated caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)

Striated caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis) pair of adults playing with dry seaweed. They have excellent colour vision and often steal objects that are red, the colour of meat. Falkland Islands, South Atlantic

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An ornithologist holding a Firecrest he has just banded. (Regulu

An ornithologist holding a Firecrest he has just banded. (Regulus ignicapilla) At the Col de Bretolet operated by the Swiss Ornithological Institute every year between ten and twenty thousand migrating birds of a hundred species are caught, ringed, recorded and released. Alps, Canton of Valais, Switzerland

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