Kidney Island Seabird Evening Trip

Falklands Nature

Trip Details

Departure
Stanley, East Falkland
Schedule
Available year-round by arrangement; evening departures timed to sunset
Price
GBP 75 per person (max 12 guests)

About This Trip

Falklands Nature, led by sixth-generation Falkland Islander and award-winning wildlife photographer Andy Pollard, runs permit-only evening trips to Kidney Island — a National Nature Reserve and one of the most important seabird colonies in the South Atlantic. The island holds one of the Falklands' largest Sooty Shearwater colonies (up to 100,000 breeding pairs), along with Rockhopper Penguins, endemic Cobb's Wren, and Falkland Steamer-Ducks. As dusk falls, the spectacle of thousands of shearwaters returning to their burrows in near-darkness is one of the most dramatic seabird events in the Southern Hemisphere.

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