Living Science: Three years in the Galapagos Islands

Abstract

Elizabeth will present an outline of the work done from 1977-1979 by Robert Tindle and Elizabeth as visiting scientists at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands. They were funded for three years by the World Wildlife Fund and the Fauna Society of the United Kingdom to study the breeding biology and ethology of the flightless cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi) and the greater flamingo (Pheonicopterus ruber ruber) in the Islands. When not in the field, Elizabeth worked as librarian in the Research Station scientific library. The presentation will be informal and will include many of the 'human' aspects of living on and travelling between uninhabited islands. Their son spent the first two years of his life on these volcanic Islands.