Galapagos Birds

Vibrant images of unique bird species from the Galapagos Islands, including various boobies and cormorants, set against stunning coastal backdrops.

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) in the cliffs of Hermaness bird reserve on the island of Unst, Scotland, Shetland Islands

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Ecuador, Galapagos. Espanoloa (aka Hood), Punta Suarez. Nazca Booby aka Masked booby, (WILD: Sula granti)

Blue footed booby Sula nebouxii, Isla Lobos off Isla San Cristobal San Cristobal Island, Islas Plaza Plaza island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Her...

South America, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands. Flightless Cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi)

Northern gannets on the nest

A blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) at Point Cormorant of Floreana Island in the Galapagos National Park, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

A blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) sitting on lava rocks at the lagoon at Black Turtle Cove, Santa Cruz Island (Indefatigable) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

ECUADOR, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, HOOD ISLAND (ESPANOLA), BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY, COURTSHIP DANCE

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Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) in the cliffs of Hermaness bird reserve on the island of Unst, Scotland, Shetland Islands

Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) calling on nest, off Wolf Volcano, Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Common Murre (Uria aalge) with fish prey, Farne Islands, Northumberland, England

Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on rocks, Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, California

South America, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Magnificent Frigatebird , Female, Portrait, North Seymour Island

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) incubating egg, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

ANTARCTICA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, PETERMANN ISLAND, BLUE-EYED SHAG ON NEST IN EVENING LIGHT

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) perched on a rock, Helgoland, Germany

A large fluffy Nazca booby (Sula granti) chick on Genovesa Island (Tower Island) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) close up portrait, Genovesa Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Ecuador, Galapagos, Santiago (aka James). James Bay, Puerto Egas. Yellow-crowned Night Heron (WILD: Nyctanassa violacea, endemic subspecies)

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), Helgoland, Germany

Great frigatebird (Fregata Minor), North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster), Cayman Brac, BWI

Blue-Footed booby (Sula nebouxii), North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), Saltee Islands, Ireland

Shag (Phalacrocorax Aristotelis) On Cliff-Top, Puffin Island, North Wales, Uk, June

young shag cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, cala Sanau, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Nazca booby (Sula granti), Punta Suarez, Espanola Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) calling, Saltee Islands, Ireland

bird little egret white hunting

ECUADOR, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, TOWER ISLAND (GENOVESA), RED-FOOTED BOOBY, PORTRAIT

Hammerkop - standing lateral, Scopus umbretta

Basstölpel am Vogelfelsen auf Helgoland Basstölpel am Vogelfelsen auf Helgoland Copyright: xZoonar.com/MartinaxBergx 9094346

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Isabela, blue-footed booby on rock

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) on a rock, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)

United States, Hawaii, Midway, Atoll NWR. Nesting red-footed booby

Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Genovesa, Darwin Bay Beach, red-footed booby (Sula sula websteri) perching in foliage.

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) perched on a kedge, Helgoland, Germany

Masked Booby posed on a branch Galapagos

Krähenhrbe Krähharbe

Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) juvenile, Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

Ecuador, Galapagos National Park, Santiago Island. Blue-footed booby preening on volcanic rock.

Nazca booby close-up. Genovesa Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Close Up Portrait Of A Blue Footed Booby

Puffin (Fratercula arctica) juvenile, close-up of head, nesting, Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

tropical pigeon bird

Immature brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) inspecting each others bills at Puerto Egas, Santiago Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South Ameri...

Blue footed Boobie (Sula nebouxii), Isla Isabela, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Little Blue Heron, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), Queensland, Australia, Oceania

USA; Florida; An anhinga at Everglades NP in the spring.

Waved Albatross lied down on its nest Galapagos

Cape Cormorant, (Phalacrocorax capensis), adult on rock, Betty's Bay, Stony Point Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa

Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus), Svalbard, Norway

A Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is sitting on a lava cliff on Rabida Island (Jervis Island) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) pair engaged in courtship display, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

red breasted merganser (mergus serrator)

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King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), half grown chick on beach of Saunders Island. South America, Falkland Islands.

Laysan Albatross w/ Chick (Diomedea immutabilis), Midway Island, Pacific

Blue-Footed Booby - with egg (Sula nebouxii). Espagnola Island - Galapagos Islands.

Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) (synonym: Sula bassana), two young birds, chicks in juvenile plumage with remnants of downy feathers on the head and neck, one flapping its wings, motion blur, wipe effect, spread wings, adults, dark sea in the evening, gannet colony on the Lummenfelsen, Helgoland Island, North Sea, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) sitting on the Red Rock of Heligoland (Solan Goose) (Solan bird)

Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) incubating eggs on nest, Alaska

UK, Northumberland, Farne Island, European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, nesting

Little auk or dovekie (Alle alle), in breeding plumage, Fuglesongen, Svalbard Archipelago, Arctic Norway.

Masked or Nazca Boobies (Sula granti), Galapagos Islands Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America

Red Footed Booby, (Sula sula),Galapagos Islands,Ecuador,adult,on tree

South America, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands. Red Footed Booby (Sula sula)

Common guillemot (Uria aalge) flapping its wings, Hornoya Island, Vardo, Varanger, Finnmark, Norway, Europe

ECUADOR, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, NORTH SEYMOUR ISLAND, BLUE-FOOTED BOOBIES

Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) pair at nest, Point Lobos State Reserve, California

crested tern on nest, sterna bergii; lady elliot island, australia

Nazca Boobies (Sula granti), juveniles, Espanola Island, Galapagos, Ecuador, South America

Common murre with egg, St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska.

South America, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, North Seymour Island. Nesting colony of the Blue footed Booby.

Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) hatching, Ile du Grand Conétable National Nature Reserve, French Guiana.

Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Blue-footed Booby standing on rock looking up at sky

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) drying its wings on the shore of Lake Wallersee near Henndorf in the morning, Salzburg, Austria

Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) and chick in nest, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

United States, Hawaii, Midway, Atoll NWR. Baby laysan albatross on beach

Cape Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capensis), adult, on rocks, Bettys Bay, Stony Point Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa

Courtship behavior of Blue footed booby (Sula nebouxii)

South America, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands. Blue footed booby (Sula nebouxii)

Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) on beach near Stromness on South Georgia.

Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on the beach, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Blue Footed Booby,(Sula nebouxi)i, Galapagos Islands,Ecuador,couple courting

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) with chicks, Lobos Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), juvenile, swimming in the sea, off Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa

Lava heron (Butorides sundevalli) on a rock, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Pelican resting in the mangrove trees on Galapagos

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) on a rock in Buccaneer Cove, Isla Santiago, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America

White-throated Dipper on the bank of a frozen river Varanger

Kelp Goose (Chloephaga hybrida) eating kelp on rocks, Falkland Islands

Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra), chick, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), portrait

Flightless / Galapagos Cormorant (Phalacrocorax / Nannopterum harrisi) drying its wings after a dive. Galapagos Islands, July.

Common eider (Somateria mollissima) in nest, farm, homestead, Vigur, Vestfiroir, Westfjords, North-West Iceland, Iceland, Europe

Waved Albatross,(Diomedea irrorata),Galapagos Islands,Ecuador,young bird,chick,on ground,resting

Lava Heron on a rock Galapagos

Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi), at new haul out on Las Animas Island, Baja California Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) sitting in nest with eggs, brooding, dry vegetation, Isla de la Plata, Machalilla National Park, Manabi Province, Ecuador, South America

Netherlands, Amsterdam on 2022-09-22. Animal photography at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam. Photography by Martin Bertrand.Pays-Bas, Amsterdam le 2022-09-22. Photographie animaliere au zoo Artis a Amsterdam. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Galapagos Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii excisa), Seymour Norte, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America

Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), juvenile, sitting on nest, Prion Island, South Georgia

Ecuador, Galapagos National Park, Isla Lobos. Blue-footed booby on rock.

Proud parent short-tailed albatross showing its egg. If the pair's effort is successful, this would mark the first confirmed hatching of a short-tailed albatross outside of Japan in modern history! Establishing a new nesting colony is one of several impor. Subjects: Birds; Marine birds; Endangered species; Islands; Wildlife refuges. Location: Pacific Islands. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: MIDWAY ATOLL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Guanay Cormorant, phalacrocorax bougainvillii, Group standing on Rocks, Ballestas Islands at Paracas Reserve in Peru

Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita). Netherlands.

Galapagos Brown Pelican (Pelicanus Occidentalis urinator) sitting in the tree, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America

White-breasted dipper (Cinclus cinclus) standing on stone, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Common shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), breeding pair during courtship display, Hornoya Island, Vardo, Varanger, Finnmark, Norway, Europe

Common guillemot (Uria aalge), bird sitting on rocks, Guillemot Rock Helgoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Galapagos Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii excisa), Elisabeth Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos, Ecuador, South America

Heiliger Ibis, Pharaonenibis, Pharaonen-Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus, frisst einen Flusskrebs, Portraet, Italien, Toskana African sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus, feeding a crayfish, portrait, Italy, Tuscany, Piana Livornese-Pisana, Livorno Pisa BLWS714403 *** Saint Ibis, Pharaohs Ibis, Pharaohs Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus , eats a Crayfish, Portraet, Italy, Tuscany African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus , Feeding a crayfish, portrait, Italy, Tuscany, Piana Livornese Pisana, Livorno Pisa BLWS714403 Copyright: xblickwinkel/AGAMI/D.xOcchiatox

A Great Cormorant standing on a pier, open wings, cloudy day in summer, Sellin Ruegen, Germany Sellin Germany

Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) lying dead on the ground probably due to Avian influenza

Brown pelecanus on Rocky shore Galapagos Jervis Island

N. Gannet carrying nesting Material (Sula bassana), Bonaventure I., PQ, Canada

Crested caracara (Caracara plancus), Monte Leon National Park, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, South America

UK, South Georgia Island, juvenile King Penguin on beach, close up

Galapagos Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis urinator), Tagus Cove, Isabela Island, Galapagos, Ecuador, South America

Ecuador,Galapagos Islands, Tower Island, Red-Footed Boobies In Mangrove Tree

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) adult, roosting on sea defence marker post, Norfolk, England, october

Great Frigatebird - with inflated throat. (Fregata minor). Isla Lobos - Galapagos Islands.

ECUADOR, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, TOWER ISLAND (GENOVESA), GREAT FRIGATE BIRD COLONY, MALES WITH INFLATED THROAT POUCH, COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR

Coba, Mexico. Local peacocks at Coba cenote. (Editorial Use Only)