Where can you see the Common Diving Petrel?
Some of the best places to see the Common Diving Petrel in the wild include Port Stephens (Falkland Islands), Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) and Fortuna Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) — among 8 wildlife hotspots across South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Falkland Islands and Australia. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Cooper Bay
Cooper Bay, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+27 birds+9 mammals
Where black-sand beaches meet towering cliffs striped with cascading meltwater, one of the Southern Ocean’s most dramatic amphitheaters reveals itself. […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEElsehul Bay
Bird Island Station, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+29 birds+4 mammals
Granite peaks rise sheer from the Southern Ocean, their weathered faces streaked with cascading meltwater and cloaked in tussock grass […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEFortuna Bay
Stromness, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+26 birds+9 mammals
Where tussock grasslands sweep down to black-sand beaches and elephant seals haul out in thunderous colonies, the raw sub-Antarctic landscape […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEPort Stephens
Port Stephens, Falkland Islands
+33 birds+5 mammals
Windswept moorlands sweep down to pristine beaches where kelp forests fringe the turquoise shallows, their giant fronds swaying in the […]
VIEW NATURE RESERVEPrion Island
Prince Olav Harbour, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+25 birds
Windswept tussock grasslands rise sharply from boulder-strewn beaches where the Southern Ocean hurls its grey swells against black volcanic rock. […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOSalisbury Plain
South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+26 birds+3 mammals
Where tussock grasses bow to relentless Antarctic winds and glacial meltwater carves braided channels through obsidian volcanic soil, one of […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPESt. Andrews Bay
South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+28 birds+11 mammals
Where windswept tundra dissolves into obsidian beaches, one of the planet’s most extraordinary wildlife theaters unfolds across St. Andrews Bay. […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEWilsons Promontory National Park
Australia
+125 birds+20 mammals
Granite peaks thrust skyward from Victoria’s southeastern tip, where windswept heathlands roll toward pristine coastlines carved by relentless Southern Ocean […]
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