Today, we visited one of the few spots where we find red-footed boobies. Punta Pitt is the easternmost spot of the Galapagos archipelago. It consists of a tuff cone and bushes that serve as nesting and resting places for red-footed boobies. Blue-footed boobies and Nazca boobies are also found here.
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- 09 Dec 2022
Punta Pitt, 12/9/2022, National Geographic Endeavour II
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Jorge Alvear, Naturalist
Jorge was born in Cuenca, a city in the southern Ecuadorian Andes, but he moved to Galapagos 25 years ago with his parents. He fell in love with the archipelago. Therefore, he decided to study Tourism Management in Quito University. He started his ca...
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