Swallow-tailed Gull
Creagrus furcatus
- Where
- 6 sites on 5 islands, mostly South
- When
- Year round
JFMAMJJASOND
On 77 of 97 routes · 1806 departures in season
See these departures →The Galápagos Cruise · Wildlife
Galápagos Birds: 41 Species and Where to See Them
41
species recorded
17
found only here
15
islands
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Forty-one bird species are recorded across the 15 islands our ships call at, and 17 of them live nowhere else on earth.
Where you go matters more than when. Most species are here the whole year round, but almost half are recorded at a single island: the waved albatross only on Española, the flightless cormorant only in the west. The map below shows which island holds what.
Where they are
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9 of 11 species shown
almost alwaysoftensometimesnot in this month
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpres
- Where
- 2 sites on 2 islands, mostly South
- When
- Year round
JFMAMJJASOND
On 41 of 97 routes · 907 departures in season
See these departures →Black-necked Stilt
Himantopus mexicanus
- Where
- 3 sites on 3 islands, mostly South
- When
- Year round
JFMAMJJASOND
On 58 of 97 routes · 1345 departures in season
See these departures →Frigatebird
Fregata spp.
- Where
- 4 sites on 3 islands, mostly South
- When
- Year round
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On 65 of 97 routes · 1473 departures in season
See these departures →Red-footed Booby
Sula sula
- Where
- 5 sites on 4 islands, mostly North
- When
- Year round
JFMAMJJASOND
On 53 of 97 routes · 1145 departures in season
See these departures →White-cheeked Pintail
Anas bahamensis
- Where
- 5 sites on 4 islands, mostly South
- When
- Year round
JFMAMJJASOND
On 77 of 97 routes · 1848 departures in season
See these departures →Great Frigatebird
Fregata minor
- Where
- 6 sites on 3 islands, mostly North
- When
- Year round, more between Mar and Jun
JFMAMJJASOND
On 67 of 97 routes · 1548 departures in season
See these departures →Magnificent Frigatebird
Fregata magnificens
- Where
- 6 sites on 5 islands, mostly North
- When
- Year round, more between Jan and Mar
JFMAMJJASOND
On 68 of 97 routes · 1589 departures in season
See these departures →Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis
- Where
- on most islands
- When
- Year round
JFMAMJJASOND
On 83 of 97 routes · 2048 departures in season
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399 of the 2123 upcoming departures put you where the Brown Noddy is, at the time it is there.
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- You see it. The ship is at the site while the species is recorded there.
- Right island, wrong month. The route calls there outside the months on record.
- Never gets there. The route does not call at any of its sites.
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ELITE · 8-Day Western Islands: El Junco's Bathing Frigatebirds
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