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Subject: [Leica] Falklands 2
From: ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:41:23 -0500
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wonderful

keep 'em comin'

ric


On Jan 31, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The second stop in the Falklands was to visit a Rockhopper Penguin
> breeding colony in an area of Tussock Grass. These are small,
> aggressive and loud penguins with spectacular eyebrows, who nest at
> the top of cliffs and make the journey down and up again daily to
> feed, and get their name from their propensity to hop or jump over
> rocks on the way. They belong to a part of the group known as Crested
> Penguins. The conventional scientific wisdom on why many species of
> penguins tend to colonize the highest points of cliffs, despite the
> obvious expenditure of large amounts of energy on feeding, is that
> these are the spots where the ice melts the earliest, so giving an
> earlier start to the breeding season, effective lengthening it, so
> more time can be spent on the chicks before they fledge.
> 
> View from the colony:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Panoramas/antarcticpanos_001/Antarctica_20140109_1489.jpg.html
> 
> Trudging Up the Cliff:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1795.jpg.html
> 
> Courtship: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1682.jpg.html
> 
> Ecstatic Display:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1685.jpg.html
> 
> Cacophony: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1640.jpg.html
> 
> Feeding: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140109_1558.jpg.html
> 
> Please see LARGE
> 
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
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