| It was true that there were extraordinary birds to be seen, not just penguins but oddities like the snowy sheathbill and the world's southernmost-breeding songbird, the South Georgia pipit. |
| Breeding in separated pairs, this snowy sheathbill has a large nest in a rocky crevice made of a variety of materials thrown up on the beach by the waves. |
| Here I found two pairs of the sheathbill a bird whose place in the system has puzzled ornithologists. |
| During lunch the local information came in, so we drove back to Cape Town harbor and had a search for the sheathbill from the port's main jetty. |
