Anathema Device @anathema_device@wonkodon.com

More #birds from our South American/Antarctica cruise. These are saffron finches, photographed at the hotel we stayed in while at #Iguazu Falls #argentina

As well as being visited by the young singing magpie at the CREEC café, a juvenile pied butcherbird decided to join me briefly to see if there were nibbles available (there were not!) It was in the process of moulting and looking scruffy, unlike the sleekly beautiful adults.

The butcherbirds have even lovelier songs than magpies, but this one declined to sing for me :)
https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/pied-butcherbird

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An young Australian Magpie at CREEC, Burpengary, #queensland showing why it is also called a 'flute bird'

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More #Birds !

Specifically Magellanic (or Jackass) Penguins, from Magdelena Island, Chile

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I need to post #birds, I think!

Have a bay-winged cowbird, and a pair of chalk-browed mockingbirds, both photographed at Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Our cruise ship called in at Stanley, Falkland Islands, on a sunny warm day, so rare and lovely that the locals said they only had weather like it five days a year at most, and our captain said he had never seen it at all. There will be a few photos of birds from there because it is, amongst other things, a bird lover's paradise!

This is a crested duck (Thanks to @manukikorangi for correcting my misidentification)

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More birds from the Falkland islands, this time from Bluff Cove. These are upland geese, which show strong sexual dichromatism (boys and girls wear different coloured clothes :) )

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Kelp gull and chicks, Magdalena Island, Straights of Magellan, #chile #birds #wildlife

I have a bazillion travel photos sitting on my computer, and since I'm following people who take or repost such wonderful shots, I thought I would dig out some of my better ones to share. I won't post more than a couple a day, to avoid overloading the server.

A few years ago we took a cruise from Valparaiso, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Antarctica. Amongst other things, we saw a *lot* of new birds.

This is a Peruvian Pelican, photo taken at #Valparaiso #chile #Birds #wildlife