Galapagos Birding. With a height of around 45 cm it is considered a small bird. Historically known for landing on the hats and shoulders of early sailors these are very tame and gentle birds.
Its also known by the name of Galapagos Pintail. In San Cristobal Highlands you will look for the Galapagos Rail Galapagos Flycatcher Paint Billed Crake Small Ground finch Medium Ground finch Yellow Warbler Woodpecker finch and the two species of Frigate birds. From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia This is a list of birds recorded in the Galápagos islands of Ecuador where 185 species have been documented as of February 2019.
The Galapagos Islands are a naturalists dream and millions of photographs have been taken of nesting Waved Albatrosses dancing boobies displaying frigatebirds and even the drab but fascinating finches endemic to the islands.
Bird life in the Galapagos is much more abundant and varied simply for the fact that it was much easier for birds to reach the islands than reptiles or mammals. The Galapagos Islands are a naturalists dream and millions of photographs have been taken of nesting Waved Albatrosses dancing boobies displaying frigatebirds and even the drab but fascinating finches endemic to the islands. With a height of around 45 cm it is considered a small bird. Of them 30 are endemic three nest only in the Galápagos and virtually the entire population of a fourth nests there.