Visiting Isla Santa Cruz in the Galápagos Archipelago

Charles Darwin Research Station (continued)

 
Mockingbirds. In the first picture, the mockingbird is in the process of gulping down a red berry.

 
One of the species of finches that Darwin studied.   A brown pelican in a mangrove tree.

 
Mangrove trees along the rocky shoreline. One of the trails you can follow starts on shore and passes through dense mangroves then leads out onto a concrete pier.

 
Galapagos saltbush, Cryptocarpus pyriformis.  

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