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Daphne Major, the Glossary

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Daphne Major is a volcanic island just north of Santa Cruz Island and just west of the Baltra Airport in the Archipelago of Colón, commonly known as the Galápagos Islands.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 18 relations: Blue-footed booby, Daphne Major finches, Darwin's finches, Evolution, Galápagos Islands, Galápagos martin, Island, Jonathan Weiner, Magnificent frigatebird, Nazca booby, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Red-billed tropicbird, Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos), Short-eared owl, The Beak of the Finch, Tuff, Volcanic crater, Volcano.

  2. Islands of the Galápagos Islands
  3. Volcanoes of the Galápagos Islands

The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Daphne Major finches

The Daphne Major finches are a group of Darwin's finches that inhabit Daphne Major island of the Galápagos.

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Darwin's finches

Darwin's finches (also known as the Galápagos finches) are a group of about 18 species of passerine birds.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands (Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the Equator west of the mainland of South America.

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Galápagos martin

The Galápagos martin (Progne modesta) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae, endemic to the Galápagos Islands.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner (born November 26, 1953) is an American writer of non-fiction books based on his biological observations, focusing particularly on evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.

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Magnificent frigatebird

The magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae.

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Nazca booby

The Nazca booby (Sula granti) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae, native to the eastern Pacific.

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Peter and Rosemary Grant

Peter Raymond Grant (born October 26, 1936) and Barbara Rosemary Grant (born October 8, 1936) are a British married couple who are evolutionary biologists at Princeton University.

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Red-billed tropicbird

The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) is a tropicbird, one of three closely related species of seabird of tropical oceans.

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Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos)

Santa Cruz Island (Isla Santa Cruz), also known as Indefatigable Island and by other names, is the most populous and second-largest island in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Daphne Major and Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos) are islands of the Galápagos Islands.

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Short-eared owl

The short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) is a widespread grassland species in the family Strigidae.

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The Beak of the Finch

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time is a 1994 nonfiction book about evolutionary biology, written by Jonathan Weiner.

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Tuff

Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.

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Volcanic crater

A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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See also

Islands of the Galápagos Islands

Volcanoes of the Galápagos Islands

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Major