SIGHTS THE ELUSIVE DARWIN ALBINO FINCH
Santa Monica ophthalmologist Michael Reynard, M.D. hadn’t the slightest clue that he would make a significant ornithological discovery in his recent visit to the Galapagos Islands. While visiting the Galapagos island of Genoyesa on March 9, 2005, Dr. Michael Reynard and a group of visitors sighted the rare Darwin Albino Finch. This subtype of finch had not been sighted on the Galapagos Islands for over forty years and is not one of the thirteen species known to currently exist on the Galapagos Islands. Dr. Michael Reynard of Santa Monica, guide Enrique Silva of Galapagos, Ecuador, Mike Jenkins of Leicestershire, England, and Fred Girshick of Linden, New Jersey, became the first visitors to the Galapagos Islands to take still photographs of the elusive Darwin Albino Finch. Michael Reynard, M.D. is an ophthalmologist in Santa Monica specializing in laser, cataract, and eyelid surgery
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 23, 2005. Read the original PDF.