Galapagos hawk with a finch on the same perch.
Our naturalist guide said that typically boobies will raise only one of the two chicks they hatch in a brood, so when boobies are bountiful, hawks eat well and do not have to prey on other birds. I don't know whether that is true, but it is certainly true that this finch was apparently feeling no sense of danger being in close proximity with the hawk, and the hawk completely ignored the finch.
Isla Espanola, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
May 21, 2009
Our naturalist guide said that typically boobies will raise only one of the two chicks they hatch in a brood, so when boobies are bountiful, hawks eat well and do not have to prey on other birds. I don't know whether that is true, but it is certainly true that this finch was apparently feeling no sense of danger being in close proximity with the hawk, and the hawk completely ignored the finch.
Isla Espanola, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
May 21, 2009
Galapagos hawk with a finch on the same perch.
Our naturalist guide said that typically boobies will raise only one of the two chicks they hatch in a brood, so when boobies are bountiful, hawks eat well and do not have to prey on other birds. I don't know whether that is true, but it is certainly true that this finch was apparently feeling no sense of danger being in close proximity with the hawk, and the hawk completely ignored the finch.
Isla Espanola, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
May 21, 2009
Our naturalist guide said that typically boobies will raise only one of the two chicks they hatch in a brood, so when boobies are bountiful, hawks eat well and do not have to prey on other birds. I don't know whether that is true, but it is certainly true that this finch was apparently feeling no sense of danger being in close proximity with the hawk, and the hawk completely ignored the finch.
Isla Espanola, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
May 21, 2009
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