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Galapagos travel - wildlife activity June

Galapagos travel - wildlife activity highlights for the month of june

  • Beginning of the garúa season
  • Giant tortoises on Santa Cruz Island migrate from the highlands to the lowlands in search of suitable nesting places
  • Beginning of the nesting season of giant tortoises
  • South east trade winds return. Currents become a bit stronger. Seas pick up in surge and wave action.
  • Many red pouches by males of Magnificent Frigatebirds on North Seymour.
  • Southern migrants have started their journey towards the north. Galapagos is a rest stop for such birds. Some species of cetaceans also follow this pattern of migration.
  • Some groups of Humpback whales that migrate up to equatorial latitudes along the coast of Ecuador, can reach the Galapagos too.

    • Galapagos travel - wildlife activity highlights for the month of May

    • North Seymour's blue-footed boobies begin their courtship
    • Sea turtles are still hatching on Gardner Bay, Punta Cormorant, and Puerto Egas
    • Most of marine iguanas' eggs hatch from nests on Santa Cruz
    • Palo santo trees begin to shed their foliage
    • Waved albatross on Española start laying their eggs
    • Ban-rumped storm petrels begin their first nesting period

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