Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in flight near guests on North Seymour Island in the Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Male Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in breeding plumage with greenish metalic sheen to feathers) North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Adult Patagonian crested duck (Lophonetta specularioides specularioides) on Carcass Island in the Falkland Islands, South America

Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher (Ptiliogonys caudatus), Costa Rica

Adult female kelp goose (Chloephaga hybrida) in the Falkland Islands

Brunnichs guillemot (Uria lomvia) in flight at Cape Fanshawe in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata), on the wreck of the Guvernoren in the Enterprise Islands, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), in Borgarfjaroarhofn, Iceland, Polar Regions

Adult Swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus) on Espanola Island in the Galapagos Island Archipelago, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), atop a cliff with an Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides), soaring above in Westman Islands, Iceland, Polar Regions

Young northern gannet (Morus bassanus) in flight near Ile des Oiseaux in the Parc National du Delta du Saloum, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Senegal, West Africa, Africa

An avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta), at Brownsea Island, a nature reserve in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

An adult Galapagos dove (Zenaida galapagoensis) on Espanola Island in the Galapagos Island Archipelago, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

A man and woman looking through their binoculars while birding at Utica Reservoir.

A woman looking through her binoculars while birding at Utica Reservoir.

A woman looking through her binoculars while birding at Utica Reservoir.