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And finally, thank goodness I hear you say, we come to the Finches. Darwin used these along with other examples as evidence for evolution and the survival of the fittest. What was remarkable was that he only spent 15 days ashore and still worked out that the finches' beaks evolved from a common ancestor in response to differing food availability. Unfortunately, even knowing what we were looking for, we struggled to identify and separate many of the finches so it looks like the Nobel prize will have to wait another year. Below we have displayed some of our Finch Images but the only thing of certainty is we have mis-identified at least some of them. The Warbler Finch was the easiest to identify as it had a completely different behaviour to the other finches and acted very similar to the Yellow Warbler and we definitely didn't see the Vegetarian or Medium Tree Finch.
WARBLER FINCH
CACTUS FINCH
MALE POSSIBLY A CACTUS FINCH
WOODPECKER FINCH
WOODPECKER FINCH
POSSIBLE MEDIUM GROUND FINCH FEMALE
POSSIBLE MALE MEDIUM GROUND FINCH
POSSIBLY FEMALE MEDIUM GROUND FINCH
POSSIBLE FEMALE MEDIUM GROUND FINCH
POSSIBLE SMALL GROUND FINCH
SMALL GROUND FINCH