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Galápagos Islands

Hover your mouse over an image to see its description, and click to view a larger version. Prints and digital downloads can be purchased via the shopping-cart icon in the larger view. Teachers are welcome to use any of the images in lectures for free as long as watermarks are visible and they are not published online or in print. My full photography site is here if you’d like to browse.

Galápagos marine iguana feces
Galápagos marine iguanas
Mess of marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on beach
Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) with Sally Lightfoot crabs
Partly submerged marine iguana covered with Sally Lightfoot crabs
Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) in field of Galápagos carpetweed (Sesuvium edmonstonei)
Marine iguana
Marine iguana
Galápagos marine iguana
Pink marine iguana
Marine iguana
Skeletonized marine iguana
Galapagos marine iguana
Fernandina marine iguana
Marine iguana
Marine iguana
Marine iguana
Marine iguanas
Fernandina marine iguana
Red cardinal fish
Great blue heron
Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) overlooking ocean
Black mangrove
Galápagos lava cactus
Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Galápagos bitterbush
Baby Galápagos tortoises (Chelonoidis sp.) at breeding center
Baby Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra)
Close-up of a western Santa Cruz giant tortoise (Chelonoidis porteri)
Western Santa Cruz Island giant toroise (Chelonoidis porteri)
Western Santa Cruz Island giant tortoise (Chelonoidis porteri)
Juvenile Alcedo Volcano giant tortoise (Chelonoidis vandenburghi)
Disarticulating carapace and plastron of a dead Alcedo Volcano giant tortoise (Chelonoidis vandenburghi)
Alcedo giant tortoise (Chelonoidis vandenburghi)
Land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus)
Galápagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) eating
Galápagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) near Waltheria ovata
Galapagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus)
Land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus)
Swallow-tailed gulls
Swallow-tailed gulls
Dodder
Euphorbia amplexicaulis
Great frigatebirds
Great frigatebird
Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) with inflated gular sac
Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) perched in shrub
Great frigatebird
Great frigatebird
Galapaganus conwayensis
Galápagos books in the Galápagos
Gift shop at Charles Darwin Research Foundation
Galápagos Islands origin mural
Daphne Minor (left) and Daphne Major (right) in the morning
Display on GPS unit when crossing the equator
M/V Evolution
Pelican waiting for the fish market to open
View from peak on Isla Isabela
Eroding cliff on Isla Rabida
Ghost kayaks
Weathered lava on Isla Santiago
National Geographic Endeavour
Galápagos sunset
Pinnacle Rock
Isla Rabida reflected in bar mirror
Miniature atoll on edge of Isla Santiago
Exposed vesicles in lava
Weather lava on Isla Santiago
Pahoehoe lava near Puerto Egas
Stop sign in the Galapagos
T-shirts at Baltra Airport, Galápagos
Wetsuits animated by a strong wind
Common cactus finch
Common cactus finch (Geospiza scandens) on Isla Santa Cruz
Darwin's cotton
Sally Lightfoot crab
Sally Lightfoot crab
Sally Lightfoot crab
Sally Lightfoot crab
Manchineel fruit
Player scorpionfish
Brown sea cucumber
Rustic sphinx moth
Galápagos leatherleaf fruit
Galapagos lava lizard (Microlophus albemarlensis) protecting toes from heat
Galápagos lava lizard (Microlophus albemarlensis) on lava
Santiago lava lizard (Microlophus jacobii)
Galápagos mockingbird perched on cactus
Galápagos mockingbird
Black-eared Galápagos mockingbird
Black-eared Galápagos mockingbird
Galápagos flycatcher
Galápagos flycatcher
Western spotted orbweaver (Neoscona oaxacensis)
Yellow-crowned night heron
Olfersia aenescens (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) on a Nazca booby
Prickly pear
Prickly pear
Passionflower
Passionflower
Brown pelican
Brown pelican
Brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis urinator) in flight over ocean
Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis urinator) landing on water
Brown pelican
Brown pelican
Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis urinator) landing on water
Brown pelican
Panamic cushion star
Panamic cushion stars
Galápagos cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) drying its wing feathers amid a mess of marine iguanas
Galápagos cormorant
Blue seastar
American flamingo (Phenicopterus ruber glyphorhynchus) in the Galápagos
American flamingo (Phenicopterus ruber glyphorhynchus) in the Galápagos
Variegated paper wasp
Elephant bush
Black rat
Coral beach
Thorn shrub
Sea purslane
Yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia aureola) in a tree
Nazca boobies
Nazca boobies
Nazca booby
Nazca booby
Red-footed booby
Red-footed booby
Red-footed booby
Jamaican feverplant
Goat's head (Tribulus terrestris)
Goat's head
Galápagos carpenter bee (Xylocopa darwini) on Waltheria ovata
Galápagos carpenter bee
Galápagos sea lions
Galapagos sea lion
Galápagos sea lion
Galápagos sea lion
Galápagos sea lion
Galápagos dove

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