Galápagos Shearwater
Puffinus subalaris
- Where
- on most islands
- When
- Year round
On 42 of 97 routes · 981 departures in season
See these departures →The Galápagos Cruise · Wildlife
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.
Tap an island to filter the species below. The number is how many species are recorded there.
Puffinus subalaris
On 42 of 97 routes · 981 departures in season
See these departures →Creagrus furcatus
On 77 of 97 routes · 1793 departures in season
See these departures →Fregata spp.
On 65 of 97 routes · 1460 departures in season
See these departures →Phaethon aethereus
On 71 of 97 routes · 1673 departures in season
See these departures →Pelecanus occidentalis
On 83 of 97 routes · 2033 departures in season
See these departures →Sula granti
On 81 of 97 routes · 1961 departures in season
See these departures →890 of the 2107 upcoming departures put you where the Darwin's Finches is, at the time it is there.
Treasure · 5-Day Northern & Western: Punta Pitt's Triple Boobies
Solaris · 5-Day Northern Islands: South Plaza's Hybrid Iguana
Archipel I · 8-Day Western Islands: Urbina Bay's Coral Uplift
✓All meals on board
✓Two certified national park naturalist guides
✓All excursions and landings listed in the itinerary
✓Snorkelling gear and wetsuit
✓Kayaks and stand-up paddleboards on board
✓Coffee, tea and water at any time

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