Sooty Shearwater

Bird Gallery Update: Now Completed

Before my recent surgery on Oct-25, I’d completed the revisions for the descriptions on all but one group of birds in my collection. That group was the Pelagic set. For…

2012-06-16 A Pelagic Trip With Dave Povey

A pelagic bird is a specialist of the deep ocean. These birds rarely approach shorelines, and when they do, it is only for nesting. Remote rocky islands are the usual…

2017-02-12 Isla Santa Margarita

We left Isla Asuncion late in the afternoon, and while we slept, the captain and crew drove all night towards our next destination: Isla Santa Margarita, ¾ the way down…

2017-02-10 Seafaring South

On the second day of our voyage the overcast and fog that met us at the start of our journey continued, making conditions for capturing images a challenge. For those…