Photo of 2 White-tufted Grebe. One is raised up, trying to get on top of the second, beak open, wing spread in an aggressive manner, pushing his rival under the water. White tufted grebe are predominantly black, with brown wing feathers and a beautiful triangular white cheek flare streaked with black stretching back from a stunning red eye The Camera settings were challenging in the high contrast sunlight, I set a bigger f number for a greater depth of field as the action was moving so fast, but should have upped the ISO to improve the shutter speed - most of the photos had movement blur 🙄🙄😂

CONFLICT!
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2 White-tufted Grebe fighting to gain advantage with watching females. Who knew they could be so vicious! And look at that eye!
Canon R5 500mm f/11 1:800s ISO800 see alt

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Photo of 4 White-tufted Grebe on a lake in the Falkland Islands. The photo shows one bird running across the water, away from the camera, so fast it's raised up on the water, chasing an opponent, slightly in the foreground is another bird who had been joining in with the fight while in the distance a 4th bird, probably a female looks on. There was a keen gusting wind that had set up tiny waves constantly rippling over the surface of the lake.

Photo of 3 White-tufted Grebe on a lake in the Falkland Islands. One is watching while another, who has just emerged having dived and surfaced behind a third is busy pulling the feathers on the back of his opponent. In the fore- and background is dense weedy foliage

There are 2 birds in this photo! A White Tufted Grebe has chased across the surface of a lake and thrown itself onto the top of a rival forcing it underwater. All that can be seen is a trail of splashes and a bundle of feathers which is the back and rear end of the aggressor, its orange legs just showing through the turbulent water.

2 White-tufted grebe chasing across the surface of a lake.The blue water is covered in small tight waves as the keen breeze blows ripples across the top. In the background is orange foliage. The birds have their wings open as the run across the water, one seeing off the other.

CONFLICT! #FalklandIslands #BirdsSeenIn2026 We sat and watched a group of 9 White-tufted Grebe, the females floated around the periphery while the males went hammer and tongs at each other seemingly trying to drown their opponents.
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Two Magellanic #Penguins strolling the beach like they own the place and us, waddling their way straight into our hearts. 🐧

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Photograph of a pair of Imperial Shags, The left hand bird is standing at the edge of a nest with its long neck bent until its head is resting against its back, its face, beak and eyes facing backwards. The bird on the right has bent its neck to the side to preen its shoulder with its long beak. The monochrome black and white feathers of Imperial Shags is offset by two bright orange fleshy areas just above the beak, a yellow throat and blue eyes. Canon R5 400mm f/8 1:1600 Iso800 -0.3EV

"Marge? Why are all the penguins upside down?"
"Stop being such a clown Homer, I'm trying to preen here"

Imperial Shags on a nest in a colony shared with Rockhopper Penguins #FalklandIslands

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June 2038, New Zealand conquered Falkland Islands territory previously occupied by Antarctica.
Check the full map at https://worldwarbot.com
#NewZealand #Antarctica #FalklandIslands

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A weathered #wooden #shipwreck lies abandoned on a sandy #beach. There is a cruise #ship in the background.

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Striated Caracara plus a Crested Caracara #FalklandIslands #birds #caracara

An #albatross parent stands protectively over its #chick in a nest in the Falkland Islands.

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A blue-eyed #cormorant mom nuzzling with its #chick in a nest on the Falkland Islands.

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I was thinking about how I'm excited, but not THAT excited by this weeks space mission, surely I should be hanging on every second? But then this is not my first Moon rodeo, I have vivid memories when I was 10yrs old of the excitement of the first moon landing, staying awake for as long as I could overnight hiding under the covers so my parents couldn't hear my radio (of course they knew what I was doing but were happy to indulge the added excitement of the secrecy) and smuggling the radio into school, a select group of nerdy kids all now sitting at the back of the class each with a radio covered by a jumper pinned to our ears (of course our teacher knew what we were doing but was happy to indulge the independent enthusiasm of discovery - she probably had a radio in her desk 😄) No longer a school girl I don't think we should be attempting to colonise outer space, we should be putting our efforts into keeping the amazing planet we already have habitable for all nature, but the science, resource, intelligence and effort that has gone into sending humans into space is still incredible and exciting and the benefits of that all that learning, much now decades old still reaches far into our current lives. Now....back to the live tracker....... Photo of an Imperial Shag - a large Black and white bird with pink feet - landing on what looks like a barren piece of land but is infact an area of last years nests. It is vertically upright - its feet in a flat position for landing and its neck bent with its eyes and beak pointing downwards to spot the exact place

Imperial Shag #FalklandIslands

Eat your heart out #NASA I have perfected the perfect vertical moon landing.
I was thinking about how I'm excited about the #Moon mission but ... #TheCampfire story in Alt

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Photograph of a blackish Oystercatcher - this species of oystercatcher is all black / very dark brown except for pink legs, a bright red beak, yellow eye and red eye-ring. This bird, towards the left of the photo, is standing on some rocks at the top of a beach where the tideline meets the vegetation, hidden amongst the rocks on the right and beautifully camouflaged are 2 sleeping, small, fluffy grey chicks

Blackish Oystercatcher #FalklandIslands The #Black&Red and Pink is obvious enough but can you spot the bits of fluff she's guarding?
Canon R5 500mm f7.1 1:1000s ISO400 +0.3EV

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Gentoo penguins #MurrelFarm #Kidneycove #FalklandIslands #penguins #oceanlife

Black-browed Albatross #SaundersIslands home to 1000s of BBA #birds #oceanlife #mollymawk #seabirds #wildlife #Falklandislands

Canciller británico ante la Cámara de los Comunes reitera: Soberanía de las Falkland y Gibraltar "NO es negociable" El pasado 5 de octubre INFOGATE.CL publicó: "Que Argentina ni lo sueñe (Islas Chagos), Canciller inglés: “La soberanía británica sobre las Falkland no está sujeta a negociación",…

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Argentina invades Falklands | April 2, 1982 | HISTORY On April 2, 1982, Argentina invades the Falklands Islands, a British colony since 1892 and British possession since 1...

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Today we remember all those who's lives the events 44 years ago would affect, not just for the then forthcoming 74 days, but up until this very day. #WeWillRememberThem #FalklandsWar #Falklands #Falklands44 #FalklandIslands

"A tiny Grass wren pouring its heart in song, perched high above the swaying grass" #birds #wrens #FalklandIslands #nature #birdlovers #birdphotography #birding

Portrait photo of a Short-eared Owl It is standing on an out of focus post with a similarly very out of focus blue sky, white building and brown landscape behind it. The Owl is facing the camera and the low rays of the late evening sun are illuminating its streaked feathers in a warm orange glow and highlighting its piercing yellow eyes Canon R5 500mm f/7.1 1:1000s ISO800

The late low light caught the Short-eared Owl against the blue sky to make a stunning sight. They breed on some of the smaller #FalklandIslands but we only ever saw one.

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#Albatross #chick sitting on its #nest in the #Falkland Islands.

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Quick cuddle from a pair of Black-browed Albatross #Saunders #FalklandIslands

Cobb's wren, a small rare wren found only in the Falklands...typically on offshore islands.. #wrens #birds #falklandislands #sealionisland #cobbswren

Photo originally taken to show 2 Black-browed Albatros at their nest the out of focus bird in the background had much more character. Standing as it was and looking directly at the bird in front on the edge of the nest, the characteristic black stripe over its eyes make it look cross and disapproving and easy to anthropomorphise as a fuddy-duddy old spinster. the original targets of the photo are in the foreground, the one on the left showing a sideways profile of its white head and neck and long pink beak, while the one on the right has its black back to the camera Canon R5 500mm f/10 1:640s ISO400

Black-browed Albatross #BlueSkyArtShow .
Zooming in, it would appear that the bird in the #Background was unimpressed by her loved up neighbours, the original targets of the photo 😂

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“It’s a quarter to eight here in the UK!” #FalklandIslands

Close up photo, in near side profile, of a Speckled Teal also known as a Yellow-billed Teal, both names being appropriate as it has a bright Yellow Bill with a black stripe down the middle and a very closely speckled head and large speckles over its chest and back. The flank is a pale cream and the wing primaries have a dark green tinge. Thois one is bathed in sunlight, floating on a pond, its yellow bill reflected on the ripples.

The smallest duck breeding in the #FalklandIslands is the Speckled Teal, very aptly named for todays #BirdOfTheDay #Speckled. This one was positively shining in the sunshine.

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Amazing shot Janet 🤩👍🏼

“Keep away from my baby!"
A Gentoo #penguin parent having a go at a striated caracara that was getting too lose for comfort off frame.
Canon R5 500mm f/11 1:2000s ISO800

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Photo of a black and white Gentoo Penguin and its small chick on the nest. Both are facing forward and the adult bird has its mouth wide open showing the red inside the gape, in an aggressive manner - the reason for this was that just out of frame was a Striated Caracara, a known predator of penguin chicks, getting too close for comfort.

"Keep away from my baby!"
A Gentoo #penguin parent having a go at a striated caracara that was getting too lose for comfort off frame.
Canon R5 500mm f/11 1:2000s ISO800

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Photograph of the scene looking from Carcass Island in the Falkland Islands from a hill top over the sea to further Islands in the distance. The sky is blue at the top merging into pale cloud as it drops lower towards the far mountains. The sea is blue and where it hits the land hazy. In the foreground is grass already turning from green to golden brown as summer is progressing.

Dreamy scene of blue sky and water looking out from the hillside on Carcass Island, #FalklandIslands
The sky was often blue but the wind, ah the wind ....💨

Canon R5 100mm F10 1:1600s ISO400

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Photograph of the juvenile Long-tailed Meadowlark offspring of the lead Post. It is sitting / lying, with its back to the camera, outside the nest made in the dead Tussoc grass. Much less colourful that the adult it is mainly mottled brown with a brown and black barred tail and a pale eyestripe. Its beak is open as it is calling to the ignoring adult. It's feathers are all fluffed out and messy Canon r5 500mm f7.1 1:1250s ISO400

The juvenile was also enjoying the sun but had perhaps not got the hang of this preening thing yet. 😆

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