Our last full day of this week’s expedition was spent on the northern island of Genovesa. Today was yet another spectacular and completely different day in these enchanted islands of the Galapagos! Genovesa is home to half a million seabirds and on both the morning and afternoon walks we enjoyed watching the behavior of boobies, gulls and frigates. We searched for land birds too, and found finches, mocking birds and to our delight, a couple short eared owls.
- Daily Expedition Reports
- 19 Aug 2017
Genovesa Island, 8/19/2017, National Geographic Islander
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Lynn Fowler, Expedition Leader
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and one of seven children, Lynn grew up in various university towns where her father was a professor of physics. Lynn obtained her B.A. in biology from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, followed by a master’s degree i...
Read MoreJason Heilmann, Undersea Specialist
Growing up in northern California, Jason was surrounded by the incomparable nature of the Pacific Northwest. While attending university there, Jason met and eventually married an Ecuadorian woman who happened to be from a small group of islands off t...
Read MoreMatthew Ritenour, Videographer
Matthew grew up on the Gulf of Mexico, where a love of geography, culture and history were instilled at a young age. He studied anthropology at California State University, Chico, and soon began working at the Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropol...
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