{"id":584,"date":"2017-05-30T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galakiwi.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:30:08","slug":"inca-tern-in-the-galapagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/inca-tern-in-the-galapagos-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Inca Tern in the Galapagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago we had a surprise visitor in the Galapagos Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Walking down by the tourist pier, we couldn&#8217;t help but notice a number of Galapagos Naturalist Guides were quite excited about something. They were walking up and down the pier, with their phones and cameras out taking pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0742-inca-tern-san-cristobal-island-755x500.jpg\" alt=\"Inca Tern in the Galapagos Islands\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0742-inca-tern-san-cristobal-island-755x500.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0742-inca-tern-san-cristobal-island-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0742-inca-tern-san-cristobal-island-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0742-inca-tern-san-cristobal-island.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, that is a normal thing for travelers to do &#8211; as they see sea lions, marine iguanas, pelicans, blue-footed boobies and sally light-foot crabs around the pier. But guides are usually very laid back &#8211; it takes something special for them to get excited like this.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out a very pretty bird had made its way to the pier in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. It was an Inca Tern.<\/p>\n<p>Usually limited to coastal areas of Chile and Peru, it is a very rare visitor to Ecuador &#8211; let alone the Galapagos Islands! It was the first time any of the Galapagos Naturalist Guides had seen it in the islands, so everyone was quick to get a photo and document this rare site.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-586\" src=\"http:\/\/galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0791-incatern-galapagos-815x500.jpg\" alt=\"Inca Tern\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0791-incatern-galapagos-815x500.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0791-incatern-galapagos-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0791-incatern-galapagos-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSD_0791-incatern-galapagos.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago we had a surprise visitor in the Galapagos Islands. Walking down by the tourist pier, we couldn&#8217;t help but notice a number of Galapagos Naturalist Guides were quite excited about something. They were walking up and down the pier, with their phones and cameras out taking pictures. Now, that is a normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galapagos-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}