Falkland Island Trip List

Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig Port Stanley, Falkland Main Island
Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig

Gentoo Penguin on Sea Lion Island, Falklands
Photograph taken by Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig

We had an hour birding on the Main Island, one landing on Sea Lion Island and a day at sea.  This is our full list, with new birds in bold.  37 birds with 13 new lifers:

Upland Goose

Kelp Goose

Ruddy-headed Goose

Falklands Steamer Duck

Crested Duck

Megellanic Penguin

Gentoo Penguin

Southern Rockhopper Penguin

King Penguin

Royal Southern Albatross

Black-Browed Albatross

Southern Giant Petrel

White-chinned Petrel

Sooty Shearwater

Great Shearwater 

Thin-billed Prion

Wilson's Storm-petrel

Grey-backed Storm-petrel

Megellanic Cormorant

Imperial Cormorant

Black-crowned Night-heron

Turkey Vulture

Striated Caracara

Megellanic Oystercatcher 

Two-banded Plover

White-rumped Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Dolphin Gull

Kelp Gull

South American Tern

Falkland Skua (subspecies of Brown Skua)

Blackish Cinclodes

Dark-faced Ground Tyrant

Falklands Thrush (subspecies of Austral Thrush)

White-bridled Finch

Cobb's Wren

Long-tailed Meadowlark

Black-Browed Albatross

About the Writer

Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig on ScillyPhotograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig

Mya-Rose Craig is a 13 year old young birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, writer and speaker. She is based near Bristol and writes the successful Birdgirl Blog, with posts about birding and conservation from around the world. She loved seeing Mountain Gorillas in East Africa and is looking forward to watching Penguins in Antarctica in a week (arriving on 22 December 2015), which will be her 7th continent. 

Mya-Rose is a Bristol European Green Capital 2015 Ambassador along with Kevin McCloud, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, Simon King, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Shaun the Sheep! See the full list of Bristol 2015 Ambassadors. She has also been listed with the singer songwriter George Ezra and actress Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones as one of Bristol's most influential young people. Please like her Birdgirl Facebook Page and follow her on Birdgirl Twitter