About the Birds
Some of the trip highlights are several Humboldt Current endemics, like Humboldt Penguin, Peruvian Diving Petrel, Guanay & Red-legged Shag, Peruvian Booby, Peruvian Pelican, Gray Gull, Inca Tern, the breeding endemic Pink-footed Shearwater and several Pterodroma Gadfly Petrels from South-eastern Pacific islands, the breeding endemics Juan Fernández & Stejneger Petrel among them.
Circumpolar subantarctic & patagonian voyagers or transequatorial migrants like Magellanic Penguin, Wandering Black-browed & Gray-headed Albatross, Southern & Northern Giant Petrel, Southern Fulmar, Cape & White-chinned Petrel, Sooty Shearwater, Wilson´s Storm Petrel Red Phalarope and South Polar & Chilean Skua are present most of the year.
Besides from the year-round residents, many seabirds venture and wander into the Humboldt Current from different corners of the globe, at different times of the year, and for different reasons; some of them come from antarctic and subantarctic waters at the end of summer on their way to the northern Pacific, and others come throughout the year from remote islands of the western Pacific and southeastern Indian oceans in incredibly extense foraging trips, to feast off the chilean coast on squid, fish and shrimp that thrive in these seas.
Frequent visitors from the New Zealand area like Southern & Northern Royal Salvin´s, Chatham & Buller´s Albatross and Westland Petrel are also regularly recorded.
Often some other birds roam in from equatorial and tropical Pacific waters, like Swallow-tailed & Sabine´s Gull, both of which have been recorded in our trips.
Other rare visitors spotted during our trips include Antipodean & Light-mantled Sooty Albatross and Parasitic & Pomarine Jaeger.
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