Trip Report: Chile (2019-06-20 - 2019-07-03)
Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius)
Solar Eclipse July, 2, 2019
Volcan Gullatire
Greenish Yellow-Finch (Sicalis olivascens)
Mountain Viscacha (Lagidium viscacia)
Peruvian Thick-knee (Burhinus superciliaris)
Austral Thrush (Turdus falcklandii)
Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca)
Diuca Finch (Diuca diuca)
Mourning Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti) - Female
Andean Flicker (Colaptes rupicola)
Black-winged Ground-Dove (Metriopelia melanoptera)
Culpeo (Pseudalopex culpaeus)
Braided Tree Iguana (Liolaemus platei)
Collared Plover (Charadrius collaris)
West Peruvian Dove (Zenaida meloda)
Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata)
Least Seedsnipe (Thinocorus rumicivorus)
Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis) - Female
Chimango Caracara (Milvago chimango)
Chestnut-throated Seedeater (Sporophila telasco)
Peruvian Sheartail (Thaumastura cora) - Male
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius)
Common Miner (Geositta cunicularia)
Rufous-chested Dotterel (Charadrius modestus)
Belcher's Gull (Larus belcheri)
Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola maculirostris)
Puna Ibis (Plegadis ridgwayi)
White-tufted Grebe (Rollandia rolland)
White-fronted Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albifrons)
White-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes atacamensis)
Glacier Finch (Idiopsar speculifer)
Salvin's Albatross (Thalassarche salvini)
Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda)
Striped Woodpecker (Veniliornis lignarius)
Mourning Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti)
Gray Gull (Leucophaeus modestus)
Puna Miner (Geositta punensis)
Oasis Hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper) - Female
Hooded Siskin (Spinus magellanicus)
Oasis Hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper) - Male
Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis montanus)
Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater)
Fire-eyed Diucon (Xolmis pyrope)
Rufous-banded Miner (Geositta rufipennis)
Black-necked Swan (Cygnus melancoryphus)
Red-gartered Coot (Fulica armillata)
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Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius)
Solar Eclipse July, 2, 2019
Volcan Gullatire
Greenish Yellow-Finch (Sicalis olivascens)
Mountain Viscacha (Lagidium viscacia)
Peruvian Thick-knee (Burhinus superciliaris)
Austral Thrush (Turdus falcklandii)
Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca)
Diuca Finch (Diuca diuca)
Mourning Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti) - Female
Andean Flicker (Colaptes rupicola)
Black-winged Ground-Dove (Metriopelia melanoptera)
Culpeo (Pseudalopex culpaeus)
Braided Tree Iguana (Liolaemus platei)
Collared Plover (Charadrius collaris)
West Peruvian Dove (Zenaida meloda)
Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata)
Least Seedsnipe (Thinocorus rumicivorus)
Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis) - Female
Chimango Caracara (Milvago chimango)
Chestnut-throated Seedeater (Sporophila telasco)
Peruvian Sheartail (Thaumastura cora) - Male
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius)
Common Miner (Geositta cunicularia)
Rufous-chested Dotterel (Charadrius modestus)
Belcher's Gull (Larus belcheri)
Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola maculirostris)
Puna Ibis (Plegadis ridgwayi)
White-tufted Grebe (Rollandia rolland)
White-fronted Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albifrons)
White-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes atacamensis)
Glacier Finch (Idiopsar speculifer)
Salvin's Albatross (Thalassarche salvini)
Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda)
Striped Woodpecker (Veniliornis lignarius)
Mourning Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti)
Gray Gull (Leucophaeus modestus)
Puna Miner (Geositta punensis)
Oasis Hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper) - Female
Hooded Siskin (Spinus magellanicus)
Oasis Hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper) - Male
Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis montanus)
Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater)
Fire-eyed Diucon (Xolmis pyrope)
Rufous-banded Miner (Geositta rufipennis)
Black-necked Swan (Cygnus melancoryphus)
Red-gartered Coot (Fulica armillata)
On this two-week trip to Chile, we spent the first week in the mountains and coast around Arica. The second week was in Santiago, Valparaiso, and La Serena for a solar eclipse
Sites Visited
Country: Chile
(19 sites)
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (204 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(3 records)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Orbweavers
- Silver Garden Orbweaver (Argiope argentata)
Class: Insects
(1 record)
- Order: Bees, Wasps, and Ants
(1 record)
- Family: Apidae
- Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa sp)
Class: Malacostracans
(1 record)
- Order: Crabs
(1 record)
- Family: Shore Crabs
- Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Phylum: Chordates
(201 records)
Class: Birds
(192 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(16 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Andean Duck (Oxyura ferruginea)
- Andean Goose (Oressochen melanopterus)
- Black-headed Duck (Heteronetta atricapilla)
- Black-necked Swan (Cygnus melancoryphus)
- Chiloe Wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)
- Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
- Coscoroba Swan (Coscoroba coscoroba)
- Crested Duck (Lophonetta specularioides)
- Lake Duck (Oxyura vittata)
- Puna Teal (Spatula puna)
- Red Shoveler (Spatula platalea)
- Silver Teal (Spatula versicolor)
- Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata)
- White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
- Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
- Yellow-Billed Teal (Anas flavirostris)
- Order: Boobies
(1 record)
- Family: Boobies and Gannets
- Peruvian Booby (Sula variegata)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (7 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(9 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Bare-faced Ground Dove (Metriopelia ceciliae)
- Black-winged Ground Dove (Metriopelia melanoptera)
- Chilean Pigeon (Patagioenas araucana)
- Croaking Ground Dove (Columbina cruziana)
- Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata)
- Picui Ground Dove (Columbina picui)
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- Spot-winged Pigeon (Patagioenas maculosa)
- West Peruvian Dove (Zenaida meloda)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (6 records)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (5 records)
- Order: Owls And Nightjars
(3 records)
- Family: Nighthawks and Nightjars
- Band-winged Nightjar (Systellura longirostris)
- Family: Typical Owls
- Austral Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium nana)
- Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
- Order: Pelicans (31 records)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis)
- Chimango Caracara (Daptrius chimango)
- Mountain Caracara (Daptrius megalopterus)
- Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Family: Flamingos
- Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis)
- James's Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)
- Family: Grebes
- Great Grebe (Podiceps major)
- Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
- Silvery Grebe (Podiceps occipitalis)
- White-tufted Grebe (Rollandia rolland)
- Family: Herons
- Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Andean Ibis (Theristicus branickii)
- Puna Ibis (Plegadis ridgwayi)
- Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
- Family: Jaegers and Skuas
- Chilean Skua (Stercorarius chilensis)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
- Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater)
- Family: Pelicans
- Peruvian Pelican (Pelecanus thagus)
- Family: Penguins
- Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
- Hudsonian Whimbrel (Numenius hudsonicus)
- Magellanic Snipe (Gallinago magellanica)
- Family: Stilts and Avocets
- Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
- Order: Perching Birds (74 records)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Austral Blackbird (Curaeus curaeus)
- Diuca Finch (Diuca diuca)
- Glacier Finch (Idiopsar speculifer)
- Hooded Siskin (Spinus magellanicus)
- Slender-billed Finch (Xenospingus concolor)
- Yellow-rumped Siskin (Spinus uropygialis)
- Family: Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies
- Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Buff-breasted Earthcreeper (Upucerthia validirostris)
- Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
- Common Miner (Geositta cunicularia)
- Cordilleran Canastero (Asthenes modesta)
- Cream-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes albiventris)
- Dark-bellied Cinclodes (Cinclodes patagonicus)
- Dark-winged Canastero (Asthenes arequipae)
- Gray-flanked Cinclodes (Cinclodes oustaleti)
- Grayish Miner (Geositta maritima)
- Patagonian Forest Earthcreeper (Upucerthia saturatior)
- Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura aegithaloides)
- Puna Miner (Geositta punensis)
- Rufous-banded Miner (Geositta rufipennis)
- Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
- Seaside Cinclodes (Cinclodes nigrofumosus)
- Straight-billed Earthcreeper (Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus)
- Streaked Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura striata)
- Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda)
- White-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes atacamensis)
- Wren-like Rushbird (Phleocryptes melanops)
- Family: Swallows
- Andean Swallow (Orochelidon andecola)
- Blue-and-white Swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca)
- Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Ash-breasted Sierra Finch (Geospizopsis plebejus)
- Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis)
- Band-tailed Sierra Finch (Rhopospina alaudina)
- Black-hooded Sierra Finch (Phrygilus atriceps)
- Black-throated Flowerpiercer (Diglossa brunneiventris)
- Blue-and-yellow Tanager (Rauenia bonariensis)
- Chestnut-throated Seedeater (Sporophila telasco)
- Cinereous Conebill (Conirostrum cinereum)
- Grassland Yellow-Finch (Sicalis luteola)
- Gray-hooded Sierra Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
- Greenish Yellow-Finch (Sicalis olivascens)
- Mourning Sierra Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti)
- Plumbeous Sierra Finch (Geospizopsis unicolor)
- Tamarugo Conebill (Conirostrum tamarugense)
- Family: Tapaculo
- Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius)
- White-throated Tapaculo (Scelorchilus albicollis)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Austral Thrush (Turdus falcklandii)
- Chiguanco Thrush (Turdus chiguanco)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Andean Negrito (Lessonia oreas)
- Austral Negrito (Lessonia rufa)
- Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis montanus)
- Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola maclovianus)
- Fire-eyed Diucon (Pyrope pyrope)
- Gray-bellied Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis micropterus)
- Great Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis lividus)
- Many-colored Rush Tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra)
- Patagonian Tyrant (Colorhamphus parvirostris)
- Puna Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola juninensis)
- Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola rufivertex)
- Rufous-tailed Plantcutter (Phytotoma rara)
- Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola maculirostris)
- Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)
- White-browed Chat-Tyrant (Ochthoeca leucophrys)
- White-fronted Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albifrons)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Correndera Pipit (Anthus correndera)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(18 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serranus)
- Belcher's Gull (Larus belcheri)
- Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)
- Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis)
- Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
- Gray Gull (Leucophaeus modestus)
- Inca Tern (Larosterna inca)
- Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
- Snowy-crowned Tern (Sterna trudeaui)
- Family: Plovers
- Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
- Collared Plover (Anarhynchus collaris)
- Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
- Rufous-chested Dotterel (Zonibyx modestus)
- Snowy Plover (Anarhynchus nivosus)
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
- Family: Seedsnipes
- Gray-breasted Seedsnipe (Thinocorus orbignyianus)
- Least Seedsnipe (Thinocorus rumicivorus)
- Family: Thick-knees
- Peruvian Thick-knee (Hesperoburhinus superciliaris)
- Order: Struthioniformes
(1 record)
- Family: Rheas
- Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata)
- Order: Tinamiformes (3 records)
- Order: Tubenoses (11 records)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Northern Giant-Petrel (Macronectes halli)
- Peruvian Diving-Petrel (Pelecanoides garnotii)
- Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
- Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides)
- Southern Giant-Petrel (Macronectes giganteus)
- Westland Petrel (Procellaria westlandica)
- White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(1 record)
- Family: New World Quail
- California Quail (Callipepla californica)
- Order: Vultures
(3 records)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
- Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(3 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Andean Flicker (Colaptes rupicola)
- Chilean Flicker (Colaptes pitius)
- Striped Woodpecker (Veniliornis lignarius)
Class: Mammals
(7 records)
- Order: Carnivorans
(3 records)
- Family: Canidae
- Culpeo (Pseudalopex culpaeus)
- Family: Mustelids
- Marine Otter (Lontra felina)
- Family: Otariidae
- California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus)
- Order: Even-toed Ungalates and Cetacean
(2 records)
- Family: Camelidae
- Alpaca (Lama pacos)
- Vicugna (Vicugna vicugna)
- Order: Lagomorpha
(1 record)
- Family: Leporidae
- European Hare (Lepus europaeus)
- Order: Rodents
(1 record)
- Family: Chinchillas and Viscachas
- Mountain Viscacha (Lagidium viscacia)
Class: Reptiles
(2 records)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes
(2 records)
- Family: Lava Lizards
- Lava Lizard (Microlophus heterolepis)
- Family: Liolaemidae
- Braided Tree Iguana (Liolaemus platei)