PAYMENT DETAILS PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCK CAPITALS Bird checklist for Gypsy Cove GIFT AID Please use this form for both Penguin Adoption and Membership GYPSY COVE purchase, completing the relevant sections. With Gift Aid on every £1 you give Best wildlife site close to Stanley us we can claim an extra 25p back Name _____________________________________________ from HM Revenue & Customs. To qualify, what you pay in UK Income Address ___________________________________________ and/or Capital Gains Tax must at least equal the Gift Aid all your ___________________________________________________ charities will reclaim in the tax year. ■ YES: I would like Falklands ___________________________________________________ Conservation to treat all the donations I have made in the last Postcode __________________ Tel. ____________________ four years, and all I will make until Email _____________________________________________ I notify you otherwise, as Gift Aid Long-tailed meadowlark Falkland grass wren donations. I am a UK taxpayer and ■ Please tick this box if you would like to receive updates by email understand that if I pay less Income Magellanic penguin Peregrine falcon Falkland thrush Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than PURCHASE INFORMATION Rock cormorant Two-banded plover Falkland grass wren the amount of Gift Aid claimed on * Black-crowned night-heron Magellanic oystercatcher Long-tailed meadowlark all my donations in that tax year Penguin adoption for a year – £25 / $40 ■ Kelp goose Blackish oystercatcher White-bridled finch it is my responsibility to pay any Upland goose Rufous-chested dotterel * difference. Membership fee payable Ruddy-headed goose Magellanic snipe OUT TO SEA: (see overleaf for categories) ■ Falkland steamer duck Dolphin gull Southern giant petrel Signed: ________________________ * Crested duck Kelp gull King cormorant *Please indicate £ sterling or US$ Donation ■ Turkey vulture Dark-faced ground-tyrant South American tern Variable hawk Falkland pipit Date: __________________________ Please make cheques payable Total * to Falklands Conservation. ■ To prevent the spread of invasive species and diseases, you are asked to comply with a few simple measures when travelling around the islands: make sure all of DATA PROTECTION ■ I wish to pay by Visa/Mastercard (please tick) your clothing, equipment and luggage is free from soil, animal faeces, seeds, insects My card number is We respect your privacy. Falklands and rodents, and scrub your footwear before each visit to a new wildlife Conservation will not make your site or seabird colony. If you have any questions about biosecurity, or wish to name and address available to other ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ report diseased wildlife, please speak to the landowners or call organisations, and will treat your Expiry date the Department of Agriculture 27355 / Falklands Conservation 22247 for advice. details as confidential. If however, ■■ ■■ you would be happy to receive / information, about other aspects of Signature __________________________________________ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS our work from time to time, please We wish to thank Debbie Summers and Robin Woods for information used in this leaflet, tick the box . Cardholder’s name __________________________________ Ruedi Abbühl, Alan R Henry, Kevin Schafer and Carissa Turner for the use of their Cardholder’s address (if different from applicant) photographs and Jeremy Smith and Robert Still for production of the maps. RETURN COMPLETED FORM TO: Published by Falklands Conservation July 2016. Designed by Eye on The Ball Ltd +44 1256 478309. Falklands Conservation, ___________________________________________________ Registered Office: 1 Waterloo Close, Abbotsley, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 6UX, UK The Gatehouse, The Lodge, Falklands Conservation is a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales No 03661322 and registered charity No 1073859. Falklands Conservation is registered as an Overseas Company in the Falkland Islands. Sandy, Beds, SG19 2DL, UK ___________________________________________________ Falkland Office: Jubilee Villas, Ross Road, Stanley FIQQ 1ZZ | UK Office: The Gatehouse, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds SG19 2DL __________________________ Postcode ________________ Falklands Conservation works to conserve the wildlife of the Falkland Islands. To find out more about us and how you can support what we Have you considered a Standing Order? (UK BANK ACCOUNT HOLDERS ONLY) do, visit us at Jubilee Villas, Ross Road, Stanley or go to our website: This helps us keep our administration costs down. Either download the form from our website or set www.falklandsconservation.com up your own using the following details: Falklands Conservation, Barclays Bank, King George Information about other areas of outstanding wildlife and scenery, Street, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1PX. Sort code: 20-99-40 / Account Number 90442542 can be found in A Visitor's Guide to the Falkland Islands. You can also purchase securely online at www.falklandsconservation.com/our-shop Falklands Conservation is a UK registered charity no. 1073859 and a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales no. 03661322. @FI_Conservation www.falklandsconservation.com ✃ PENGUIN ADOPTION FORM The Wildlife of Gypsy Cove King Penguin Adoption l Adopt a king penguin at the remote colony of GYPSY COVE This is to certify that Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands for £25/ The heathland area contains many typical Falkland birds such has adopted US$40 for 12 months. at Volunteer Point on East Falkland, as the Falkland grass wren, dark-faced ground tyrant, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean Volunteer Point is the most accessible breeding site for king penguins in the world. l Your adoption is protecting this important area and many other penguin colonies in the Falkland Islands. You are helping to fund research work by Falklands Conservation THE FALKLAND ISLANDS The Falkland Islands archipelago lies to improve our understanding of these beautiful birds. Help conservation efforts to protect the penguins of Falkland thrush and white-bridled finch, all endemic This adoption is for one year from Cape Dolphin 350 km (280 miles) to the east of the South the Falklands. subspecies. On the beaches you can see both Magellanic N American continent. It consists of two large l Salvador Receive a personalised adoption certificate, king Douglas D Johnsons N Station Harbour U Port San Carlos Port and blackish oystercatchers, white-rumped sandpipers, Dunbar O Louis S penguin photo and penguin pin badge. Hill Cove D D GYPSY islands, East and West Falkland, and more Roy Cove N D Berkeley www.falklandsconservation.com Photo: Ruedi Abbühl Mt Adam A Teal Port L Long Island Sound Falklands Conservation is the charity taking action for nature in the Falkland Islands. It is a UK registered charity number: 1073859 San Carlos Registered Office: 14 East Hatley, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 3JA, UK. Falklands Office: 41 Ross Road, Stanley, Falkland Islands, FIQQ 1ZZ N Howard K Inlet COVEº Crooked Inlet L N A two-banded plovers, kelp geese, and the endemic (unique 2297 F Murrell l A Bold Cove than 750 small islands and islets. Fern Mt Usborne A Port Receive updates from Falklands Conservation. L STANLEY Cape William Shallow Ridge Chartres L Pembroke Farm 2312 Harbour K Mt Pleasant Farm K Bluff Cove to these Islands) Falkland flightless steamer duck (known Darwin Airport Dunnose L L Fitzroy Head Goose Green A A Beaver Spring A Yes, I would like to Adopt a Penguin! I ■ (payment form overleaf) Island Point F F locally as the logger duck). N Ch Fox Bay oiseul Sound T East O Double F T Walker Creek Creek S A S Fox Bay Lively Island South E West L A Cape Harbour Watch out for South American terns that nest on the offshore You may wish to Adopt a Penguin as a gift or on behalf of Orford W Port Edgar E North D N Arm Port Stephens U O S Hoste Inlet D N someone else, if so just let us know the details. A Speedwell islet. The cliffs provide a good vantage point to spot other L K Island L FA 1500 Cape Meredith Bull Point seabirds such as Falkland skuas, southern giant petrels, 1000 ■ I would like the adoption pack to be sent to: 500 Kilometres 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 king and rock cormorants. The Cove is frequented by the PLEASE WRITE IN BLOCK CAPITALS 0 Height in feet 0 10 20 30 40 above sea level Miles occasional sea lion, on the look out for a meal of penguins Name _____________________________________________ or fish. Gypsy Cove is 11 km (6·8 miles) Inland much of the area is covered with dwarf shrub heath, Address ___________________________________________ from Stanley, to the north-west of dominated by diddle-dee, a small shrub whose red berries Top to bottom: ___________________________________________________ Yorke Bay. You may arrive here by King cormorant; are eaten in huge quantities by birds and are locally made ___________________________________________________ taxi or on a coach trip as part of a into jam, jellies and tarts. Gorse, introduced from Europe, White-brifled finch; cruise ship visit. Diddle-dee; Balsam bog; Postcode __________________ Tel. ____________________ can be seen on the sand dunes behind the beach where there Woolly ragwort The walk from Stanley takes are also patches of rare native boxwood, which used to be Email _____________________________________________ approximately an hour and a half. much more common in the wild than it is today. Stands of tall Take the road to Stanley Airport, fern can be seen between the car park and the north end of Penguin Name ______________________________________