thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月13日 05時06分

Big Mac penguin colony, Bird island – Photo by Kevin Schafer – @schaferpho @ナショナルジオグラフィック // It had long been a dream of mine to visit Bird Island, an outlier of South Georgia Island, on the very edge of Antarctica. I finally got a chance to go ashore there for just a few hours, and then, to my great good fortune, the weather stranded me there for four days, in one of the most glorious wildlife islands on the planet. This is an image of Big Mac, what may be the largest Macaroni Penguin colony in the world, with roughly 80,000 nesting birds. (Can you imagine counting them?) As I sat beside these two Macaroni pairs along the upper edge of the colony, I tried to imagine the challenges these birds face to return to this specific nest site every season. Not only must they navigate hundreds, if not thousands, of trackless miles of ocean to this exact spot, they must then weave their way through 80,000 other birds to find their mates, and their chosen nest sites. Then, every time they get hungry or need to feed their hungry chicks, they must march back down to the sea, and the cycle begins again. The sensory skills involved and the utter determination required to accomplish all these tasks frankly staggers me. (Full disclosure: I need Google Maps to get me almost anywhere nowadays.) #southgeorgia #birdisland #birdsofinstagram #seabirdparadise

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