Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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Galapagos
(Steve Stroud / Los Angeles Times / July 18, 2007)
A Nazca booby chick is warmed and protected by its parent on Genovesa Island. Although its nickname is Hitchcock Island (a nod to the film "The Birds"), Genovesa seems more like the Island of Love. This is where courtship is constant and babies are turned out with production-line speed.


