COASTAL GREENS -click on an icon to find the plant or bird
Coastal greens are often heavily grazed and support a lot of low - growing plant life including the rare Yellow Pale Maiden (protected), Sea Cabbage, Prickly Burr, and unusual Berry Lobelia.
Sea cabbage Senecio candidans
Yellow Pale Maiden Sisyrinchium chilense
Wild Celery Apium australe
Berry lobelia Pratia repens
Dusty Miller Primrose Primula magellanica
Short rush Rostkovia magellanica
Buttonweed Leptinella scariosa
Birds that might be seen on coastal greens:
Gentoo Penguin Pygocelis papua
Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus
King Penguin Aptenodytes p. patagonica
Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidceps
Upland Goose Chloephaga picta
Ashy-headed Goose Chloephaga poliocephala
Black-throated Finch- Melanodera melanodera
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