Galapagos field notes, v579
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P. De Benedictis 1964 25 Sun Pt. Espinoza, Fernandina Island, Galapagos. Nestly magnificent. Maybe a few murres, but not once if they are in pre-adult molt. Many of the O. guanchi show heavy molt on the wings and tail and I was able to see the belly patches of many. Feet all black. No sign of the water birds at Espinoza were 3 Penguins on the rocks. Later saw half a dozen more scattered about. Saw a flightless cormorant swimming & fishing, leaps out of the water before diving & really large compared to N.American species. A Buteo Hawk was perched in a level tree on the point. Mottled on its back & very pointed at the rarer end like B. swainsoni. Yellow Warblers common in the dense mangrove trees and heard 1a 2 geospizines. Saw a Turnstone once 2 Whimbrels before smell. Dinner was a delightful concoction, 4 oz 2 oz of Minestione, hot dogs, spoiled liver 1 oz beens, mixed vegetables; after full day of eating nothing it was good (on the boat Day gave us dry tuna fish sandwiches, and my contents were so worldly I couldn't bear to drink this H2O. Very windy, and seahons are already coming in to investigate the camp. One attacked (in a loose sense of the word) Roger Peterson & Charles Carpenter. Chased it away. Looks like a wild cowp.