This photograph of flying Ruddy-headed Geese was taken as we hiked near the shore on George Island on the morning of January 5, 2007. This island is situated at the southern entrance to Falkland Sound and, along with nearby Barren Island, forms the southernmost working farm on the Falkland Islands. George Island is free of introduced rodents and provides visitors with a good range of wildlife. The Ruddy-headed Goose is a rare sheldgoose that resembles an Ashy-headed Goose in shape and is often confused with the female Upland Goose. The Ruddy-headed Goose has a rufous vent (not black and white like the Upland) and rufous thighs with a white band anterior to the legs rather than black with white bars like the Upland. Temperatures on this partly cloudy, very windy day were in the low 50's.