Birding and Nature Tours Antarctica
Penguins are the stars of Antarctica. They represent half of the bird population of Antarctica, nine tenths of its biomass. They depend on the sea for their food, devouring about 4.7 million tons a month of crustaceans, fish and squid. While penguins dominate the bird population, other groups include tube nosed petrels, cormorants, albatrosses, skuas, gulls and terns. One might infer from these enormous concentrations of sea birds that they are invincible, but they are not. The long isolation of Antarctic birds has produced an extraordinarily innocent and docile avifauna, a quality that is attractive to tourists, but leaves them highly vulnerable to harm and mismanagement. Mammals that inhabit Antarctica include: Fur Seals, Sea Lions, Seals, Whales such as the Fin, Minke, Humpback Sperm and Killer Whale. Antarctica Itineraries with Birding and Nature Tours Antarctic Peninsula 11 nights M/V Professor Molchanov 11 nights ~ from $7350 Polar Circle - Antarctic Peninsula 'Aleksey Maryshev'/'Grigoriy Mikheev' 11 nights ~ from $6250 Antarctic Peninsula 10 nights Special new departure - March 22, 2008 'Professor Multanovskiy' 10 nights ~ from $5060 Falklands-South Georgia-Antarctic Peninsula M/V Grigoriy Mikheev, Aleksey Maryshev, Professor Molchanov 18 nights ~ from $9990