But the bird I fell in love with was the upland goose.

I stop the car to watch an upland goose pair and their six fluffy goslings skim the still surface full of clouds.

The Upland Goose is one of the most conspicuous birds in the Falklands.

The Upland goose is a subspecies of Chloephaga picta leucoptera.

Upland geese mate for life and always walk (and fly) either in couples or in extended families of four or five.

Upland Geese and Long-tailed Meadowlarks have been recorded.

With a pair of upland geese staring, I took off my hiking boots, slipped on my waders and began assembling my tackle.

Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour.

Waterfowl include Chilean Flamingo, Upland Goose, and steamer ducks.

Upland Goose Hotel: an 18 bedroom hotel which dates from the mid 19th century and was originally called the Eagle Inn.

Birds in the area include the thrush, guanaco, rhea, chingolo, Chilean flamingo, upland goose and black-necked swan.

It is also home to Dolphin Gulls, Falkland Skuas, Upland Geese and Long-tailed Meadowlarks.

George was depressed by the news that we were staying at FIPASS, a government-owned pontoon dock, rather than the fabled Upland Goose on Stanley's main street.

Aside from the wrens other birdlife includes black-throated finches, Falklands thrushes, Upland geese and Johnny rooks, which can be found around the elephant seals at Northwest Point.

Of the many kinds of waterfowl it is enough to mention the Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), the Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta), and in the strait the remarkable steamer ducks.

Even before we had left the environs of Mount Pleasant airport, we had seen upland geese grazing unconcernedly alongside the runway, and we crossed creeks where small parties of speckled teal were swimming.

But there they were, the same purple mists, saffron steppes and cadmium yellow slopes, the trail of lumpy steamer ducks breaking the surface of the water and the striped underwings of upland geese flapping against a bruised southern sky.

Black-necked swans and grebes shared the crystalline lagoons with shiny, well-fed beef cattle, while families of the Falklands' signature bird - the upland goose - pottered around on grassy tussocks or took to the cold, clear freshwater lagoons.

The Upland Goose or Magellan Goose (Chloephaga picta) is a sheldgoose of the shelduck-sheldgoose subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans.

I was constantly offered lifts in Land Rovers from the Upland Goose Hotel (opposite the Post Office), where I stayed, to the Malvina House Hotel (opposite the Post Office), where I went for lunches and dinners.

In Argentina, activities take place in the framework of a national strategy for the conservation and management of the Ruddy-headed Goose, Ashy-headed Goose and the Upland Goose; and these include an education programme and a monitoring programme in the wintering areas.

I walked through the low shrubs andMorkshire fog grass, and when upland geese rose out of the undergrowth and flew away from me and steamer ducks careering over the rocks flapped their redundant wings irritably, I thought once again of solitary days in Tierra del Fuego, a lifetime ago.

In Chapter VI of On the Origin of Species, author Charles Darwin noted that the Upland Goose has webbing between its toes that appeared to be "rudimentary in function, though not in structure", and concluded that this was a vestigial anatomical feature in this bird.

We didn't see other fishermen; indeed our company was usually Magellan geese and an occasional hare.

Magellan goose (Chloephaga picta picta) is a bird of Anatidae family.

Flocks of Magellan geese called through the calm air of twilight, their wings lit from below with the rosy light of alpenglow.

Other birds occurring in the park include the Chilean Flamingo, Darwin's Rhea, Coscoroba Swan, Black-necked Swan, Magellanic Woodpecker, Magellan Goose and Black-faced Ibis.

The Upland Goose or Magellan Goose (Chloephaga picta) is a sheldgoose of the shelduck-sheldgoose subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans.

Magellan goose (Chloephaga picta picta) is a bird of Anatidae family.

Of the many kinds of waterfowl it is enough to mention the Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), the Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta), and in the strait the remarkable steamer ducks.

The Upland Goose or Magellan Goose (Chloephaga picta) is a sheldgoose of the shelduck-sheldgoose subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans.