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| Magellanic penguins walk through tussock grass, on their way to their burrows after foraging at sea all day. Carcass Island Photo. Image ID: 24000 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Upland goose, male, beside pond in the interior of Carcass Island near Leopard Beach. Carcass Island Picture. Image ID: 24011 Species: Upland goose, Chloephaga picta Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguin. Gentoo penguins reach 36" in height and weigh up to 20 lbs. They are the fastest swimming species of penguing, feeding in marine crustaceans and fishes. Stock Photography of Carcass Island. Image ID: 23963 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Magellanic penguin, at its burrow in short grass, in the interior of Carcass Island. Photograph of Carcass Island. Image ID: 23964 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguins walk through tussock grass. After foraging in the ocean for food, the penguins make their way to the interior of the island to rest at their colony. Carcass Island Photos. Image ID: 23970 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguin, vocalizing, atop of hill of tall tussock grass. Carcass Island Image. Image ID: 23983 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Magellanic penguins, at their burrow in short grass, in the interior of Carcass Island. Professional stock photos of Carcass Island. Image ID: 24063 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguin defends its dead chick (right), from the striated caracara (left) that has just killed it. The penguin continued to defend its lifeless chick for hours, in spite of the futulity and inevitabliityof the final result. Striated caracaras eventually took possession of the dead chick and fed upon it. Pictures of Carcass Island. Image ID: 24075 Species: Striated caracara, Gentoo penguin, Phalcoboenus australis, Pygoscelis papua Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Visitors watch gentoo and Magellanic penguins on beautiful Leopard Beach, coming ashore after they have foraged at sea. Carcass Island Photo. Image ID: 23973 Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Beautiful white sand beach, on the southern tip of Carcass Island, with gentoo and Magellanic penguins coming and going to sea. Carcass Island Picture. Image ID: 23985 Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Beautiful white sand beach, on the southern tip of Carcass Island, with gentoo and Magellanic penguins coming and going to sea. Stock Photography of Carcass Island. Image ID: 24010 Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Northern giant petrel scavenging a fur seal carcass. Giant petrels will often feed on carrion, defending it in a territorial manner from other petrels and carrion feeders. Photograph of Carcass Island. Image ID: 23683 Species: Northern giant petrel, Macronectes halli Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island |
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| Gentoo penguin, returning from the sea after foraging for crustaceans, krill and fish. Carcass Island Photos. Image ID: 23968 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Magellanic penguin, juvenile, coming ashore on a sand beach after foraging at sea. Carcass Island Image. Image ID: 23969 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Kelp goose, male with chick. Professional stock photos of Carcass Island. Image ID: 24056 Species: Kelp goose, Chloephaga hybrida Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Antarctic fur seal carcass, lying on pebble beach. Dead fur seals are quickly scavenged by giant petrels, leaving the pelt and skeleton of the dead fur seal. Pictures of Carcass Island. Image ID: 24327 Species: Antarctic Fur Seal, Arctocephalus gazella Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island | Antarctic fur seal carcass, lying on pebble beach. Dead fur seals are quickly scavenged by giant petrels, leaving the pelt and skeleton of the dead fur seal. Carcass Island Photo. Image ID: 24353 Species: Antarctic Fur Seal, Arctocephalus gazella Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island | Ponds and grasses, in the interior of Carcass Island near Dyke Bay. Carcass Island Picture. Image ID: 24027 Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Visitors walk across Carcass Island, named for the HMS Carcass which surveyed the island in 1766. Stock Photography of Carcass Island. Image ID: 24069 Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Antarctic fur seal carcass and skeletal remains of giant petrel, lying on pebble beach. Dead fur seals are quickly scavenged by giant petrels, leaving the pelt and skeleton of the dead fur seal. Photograph of Carcass Island. Image ID: 24331 Species: Antarctic Fur Seal, Arctocephalus gazella Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island | Magellanic penguins walk through tussock grass. After foraging in the ocean for food, the penguins make their way to the interior of the island to rest at their colony. Carcass Island Photos. Image ID: 23972 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Flightless steamer duck, male, with ducklings, swimming in the ocean. Carcass Island Image. Image ID: 23974 Species: Flightless steamer duck, Tachyeres Brachypterus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Upland goose, male (white) and female, beside pond in the interior of Carcass Island near Dyke Bay. Professional stock photos of Carcass Island. Image ID: 23976 Species: Upland goose, Chloephaga picta Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Mixed group of Magellanic and gentoo penguins, walk from the ocean through tall tussock grass to the interior of Carcass Island. Pictures of Carcass Island. Image ID: 23981 Species: Gentoo penguin, Magellanic penguin, Pygoscelis papua, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Kelp goose, male. Carcass Island Photo. Image ID: 23984 Species: Kelp goose, Chloephaga hybrida Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Magellanic penguin, at its burrow in short grass, in the interior of Carcass Island. Carcass Island Picture. Image ID: 23986 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguin, returning from the sea after foraging for crustaceans, krill and fish. Stock Photography of Carcass Island. Image ID: 23991 Species: Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Magellanic penguin, coming ashore after foraging in the ocean for food. Photograph of Carcass Island. Image ID: 23992 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Magellanic penguin, juvenile, coming ashore on a sand beach after foraging at sea. Carcass Island Photos. Image ID: 23993 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Magellanic penguin, juvenile, coming ashore on a sand beach after foraging at sea. Carcass Island Image. Image ID: 23994 Species: Magellanic penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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