2nd November 2015. Pebble Island, Falkland Islands.

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Gentoo Penguin (also the next five images).

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These penguins are upland geese.

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And those distant shapes are nesting giant petrels.  Not to be closely approached or they desert their nests.

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Two-banded Plover.

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Cara cara.

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Flightless steamer ducks (The Falklands also has flying steamer ducks).

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Turkey vulture drying its wings.

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I think a juvenile kelp gull.

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Rockhopper penguins en masse.

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Rockhopper penguin and egg.

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A couple of macaroni penguins in the rockhopper colony.

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Rockhopper penguin.

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Rockhopper penguns near the top of the cliff, walking up towards their colony.

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Looking down to where the come in and out of the sea as the waves go crashing in.

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A longer view, also showing them coming up the cliff.

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Nearing the top, the colony in the left distance.

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These are gentoos, with a large land-based penguin in the background, otherwise known as a sheep.

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