Least ConcernPeruvian Booby
Sula variegata
One of the 4 finches on WAnimals
Birds · Passeriformes · Thraupidae
Geospiza magnirostris
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
The large ground finch is the largest of Darwin's finches and the one with the stoutest bill, able to crack the hardest seeds in the archipelago. It is one of the species behind the longest field study of evolution in action in the world: from 1973, Peter and Rosemary Grant spent forty years measuring the bills of the finches of Daphne Major island and documenting how they changed from one generation to the next with droughts and rains.
Weight
30 g – 40 g
Size
15 cm – 17 cm
Life expectancy
12 years
Diet
Herbivore
Feeds mainly on plants.
Activity
Diurnal
Active mainly during the day.
Social structure
In pairs
Usually lives in pairs, sometimes for life.
Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Geospiza magnirostris
Best time: All year round in the Galápagos, by day; between January and April, with the rains, song and breeding intensify.
The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented.
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with Large Ground-Finch — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
Based on what we already know about large ground-finch.
