Itinerary
October 28: All
arrive in
October 29: Costanera
Sur,
October 30: Flew
to Ushuaia AM; Afternoon birding in Ushuaia area, including landfill!
October 31: Tierra del
Fuego National Park
November 1: Boat tour along
Beagle Channel, lunch at Harberton Ranch & drove back via
November 2: Walk along
bayshore AM: Flew to El Calafate PM; drive to El Chalten
November 3: Long drive to
Estancia La Angostura for Hooded Grebe & then to El Calafate
November 4:
November 5: All day cruise in
November 6: Estancia
November 7:
November 8: Birding the
Espinal to Punta Tombo; flew back to
November 9: All day to Ceibas
area: Otemendi Reserve on way back to BA
November 10: All day drive to
November 11: Punta Rasa and coastal
marshes; Estancia El Palenque
November 12: Drove to BA in the morning;
flew to Iguazu. Afternoon birding at Maria’s
November 13:
November 14:
| Birds | ||
| Lesser (Darwin's) Rhea | Sandwich “Cayenne” Tern | Drab-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant |
| Brown Tinamou | Black Skimmer | Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher |
| Spotted Nothura | Chilean Skua | Yellow-olive Flatbill |
| Elegant Crested Tinamou | Brown Skua | White-throated Spadebill |
| Southern Screamer | Rock Pigeon | Bran-colored Flycatcher |
| White-faced Whistling-Duck | Pale-vented Pigeon | Euler's Flycatcher |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Picazuro Pigeon | Vermilion Flycatcher |
| Black-necked Swan | Spot-winged Pigeon | Austral Negrito |
| Coscoroba Swan | Eared Dove | White-winged Black-Tyrant |
| Upland Goose | Ruddy Ground-Dove | Spectacled Tyrant |
| Kelp Goose | Picui Ground-Dove | Yellow-browed Tyrant |
| Ashy-headed Goose | White-tipped Dove | Ochre-naped Ground-Tyrant |
| Flying Steamer-Duck | Gray-fronted Dove | Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant |
| Flightless Steamer-Duck | Nanday Parakeet | Grey-bellied Shrike-Tyrant |
| Chubut Steamer-Duck | Burrowing Parrot | Least Shrike-Tyrant |
| Crested Duck | Maroon-bellied Parakeet Austral Parakeet | Fire-eyed Diucon |
| Ringed Teal | Monk Parakeet | Gray Monjita |
| Brazilian Teal | White-eyed Parakeet | White Monjita |
| Chiloe Wigeon | Blue-winged Parrotlet | Rusty-backed Monjita |
| Cinnamon Teal | Scaly-headed Parrot | Chocolate-vented Tyrant |
| Red Shoveler | Ash-colored Cuckoo | Patagonian Tyrant |
| Yellow-billed Pintail | Squirrel Cuckoo | Long-tailed Tyrant |
| Silver Teal | Dark-billed Cuckoo | Cattle Tyrant |
| Speckled Teal | Pearly-breasted Cuckoo | Large-headed Flatbill |
| Rosy-billed Pochard | Guira Cuckoo | Sirystes |
| Andean Ruddy-Duck | Striped Cuckoo | Swainson's Flycatcher |
| Greater Ani | Short-crested Flycatcher | |
| Black-fronted Piping-Guan | Smooth-billed Ani | Great Kiskadee |
| White-tufted Grebe | Tropical Screech-Owl | Boat-billed Flycatcher |
| Great Grebe | Magellanic Horned Owl | Social Flycatcher |
| Silvery Grebe | Austral Pygmy-Owl | Three-striped Flycatcher |
| Hooded Grebe | Burrowing Owl | Streaked Flycatcher |
| Chilean Flamingo | Short-tailed Nighthawk | Piratic Flycatcher |
| Gentoo Penguin | Nacunda Nighthawk | Variegated Flycatcher |
| Magellanic Penguin | Great Dusky Swift | Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher |
| Black-browed Albatross | Sick’s (Ashy-tailed) Swift | Tropical Kingbird |
| Southern Giant-Petrel | Planalto Hermit | Fork-tailed Flycatcher |
| Southern Fulmar | Scale-throated Hermit | White-tipped Plantcutter |
| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Swallow-tailed Hummingbird | Rufous-tailed Plantcutter |
| Common Diving-Petrel | Black Jacobin | Red-ruffed Fruitcrow |
| Neotropic Cormorant | Black-throated Mango | Swallow-tailed Manakin |
| Rock Cormorant | Glittering-bellied Emerald | Black-tailed Tityra |
| Imperial Shag | Viiolet-capped Woodnymph | Chestnut-crowned Becard |
| Anhinga | Gilded Sapphire | White-winged Becard |
| Rufescent Tiger-Heron | Versicolored Emerald | Red-eyed Vireo |
| White-necked (Cocoi) Heron | Surucua Trogon | Rufous-browed Peppershrike |
| Great Egret | Black-throated Trogon | Plush-crested Jay |
| Snowy Egret | Rufous-capped Motmot | Blue-and-White Swallow |
| Cattle Egret | Amazon Kingfisher | Tawny-headed Swallow |
| Striated Heron | Chestnut-eared Aracari | Southern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Whistling Heron | Spot-billed Toucanet | Gray-breasted Martin |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Toco Toucan | Southern Martin |
| White-faced Ibis | Ochre-collared Piculet | Brown-chested Martin |
| Bare-faced Ibis | White Woodpecker | White-winged Swallow |
| Black-faced Ibis | Yellow-fronted Woodpecker | White-rumped Swallow |
| Roseate Spoonbill | White-fronted Woodpecker | Chilean Swallow |
| Maguari Stork | Checkered Woodpecker | Barn Swallow |
| Wood Stork | White-spotted Woodpecker | Thrush-like Wren |
| Black Vulture | Green-barred Woodpecker | House Wren |
| Turkey Vulture | Chilean Flicker | Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher |
| Andean Condor | Campo Flicker | Masked Gnatcatcher |
| Gray-headed Kite | Blond-crested Woodpecker | Austral Thrush |
| Swallow-tailed Kite | Lineated Woodpecker | Pale-breasted Thrush |
| White-tailed Kite | Magellanic Woodpecker | Rufous-bellied Thrush |
| Snail Kite | Common Miner | Creamy-bellied Thrush |
| Plumbeous Kite | Band-tailed Earthcreeper | Patagonian Mockingbird |
| Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle | Scale-throated Earthcreeper | Chalk-browed Mockingbird |
| Long-winged Harrier | Bar-winged Cinclodes | European Starling |
| Cinereous Harrier | Gray-flanked Cinclodes | Correndera Pipit |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Dark-bellied Cinclodes | Tropical Parula |
| Savanna Hawk | Rufous Hornero | Masked Yellowthroat |
| Harris’s (Bay-winged) Hawk | Curve-billed Reedhaunter | Golden-crowned Warbler |
| Roadside Hawk | Wren-like Rushbird | White-rimmed Warbler |
| Variable “Red-backed” Hawk | Thorn-tailed Rayadito | Bananaquit |
| White-throated Caracara | Tufted Tit-Spinetail | Magpie Tanager |
| Southern Caracara | Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail | Chestnut-headed Tanager |
| Yellow-headed Caracara | Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail | Black-goggled Tanager |
| Chimango Caracara | Chotoy Spinetail | Chestnut-vented Conebill |
| American Kestrel | Rufous-capped Spinetail | Guira Tanager |
| Aplomado Falcon | Gray-bellied Spinetail | Ruby-crowned Tanager |
| Peregrine Falcon | Sooty-fronted Spinetail | Red-crowned Ant-Tanager |
| Giant Wood-Rail | Pale-breasted Spinetail | Sayaca Tanager |
| Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail | Sulphur-bearded Spinetail | Blue-and-Yellow Tanager |
| Blackish Rail | Stripe-crowned Spinetail | Green-headed Tanager |
| Plumbeous Rail | Olive Spinetail | Blue Dacnis |
| Common Moorhen | Cordilleran Canastero | Swallow-Tanager |
| Spot-flanked Gallinule | Austral Canastero | Grey-hooded Sierra-Finch |
| Red-gartered Coot | Hudson’s Canastero | Patagonian Sierra-Finch |
| Red-fronted Coot | Sharp-billed Canastero | Mourning Sierra-Finch |
| White-winged Coot | Short-billed Canastero | Common Diuca-Finch |
| Limpkin | Patagonian Canastero | Yellow-bridled Finch |
| Southern Lapwing | Freckle-breasted Thornbird | Black-and-Rufous Warbling-Finch |
| American Golden-Plover | Lark-like Brushrunner | Black-capped Warbling-Finch |
| Two-banded Plover | Brown Cacholote | Double-collared Seedeater |
| Rufous-chested Dotterel | Buff-browed Foliage-Gleaner | Patagonian Yellow-Finch |
| Tawny-throated Dotterel | Ochre-breasted Foliage-Gleaner | Saffron Finch |
| Magellanic Plover | Olivaceous Woodcreeper | Grassland Yellow-Finch |
| American Oystercatcher | Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper | Great Pampa-Finch |
| Blackish Oystercatcher | Narrow-billed Woodcreeper | Red -crested Cardinal |
| Magellanic Oystercatcher | Spot-backed Antshrike | Saffron-billed Sparrow |
| White-backed Stilt | Tufted Antshrike | Rufous-collared Sparrow |
| Wattled Jacana | Variable Antshrike | Green-winged Saltator |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Plain Antvireo | Golden-billed Saltator |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Rufous-winged Antwren | White-browed Blackbird |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Bertoni’s Antbird | Long-tailed Meadowlark |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Dusky-tailed Antbird | Chopi Blackbird |
| Ruddy Turnstone | White-shouldered Fire-Eye | Austral Blackbird |
| Red Knot | Variegated Antpitta | Scarlet-headed Blackbird |
| Sanderling | Speckle-breasted Antpitta | Yellow-winged Blackbird |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Rufous Gnateater | Chestnut-capped Blackbird |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Magellanic Tapaculo | Brown-and-Yellow Marshbird |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Suiriri Flycatcher | Bay-winged Cowbird |
| South American Snipe | Tufted Tit-Tyrant | Shiny Cowbird |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Yellow Tyrannulet | Giant Cowbird |
| Least Seedsnipe | Warbling Doradito | Epaulet Oriole |
| Brown-hooded Gull | Greenish Elaenia | Red-rumped Cacique |
| Gray-hooded Gull | Yellow-bellied Elaenia | Purple-throated Euphonia |
| Dolphin Gull | White-crested Elaenia | Violaceous Euphonia |
| Olrog's Gull | Small-billed Elaenia | Chestnut-bellied Euphonia |
| Kelp Gull | Sooty Tyrannulet | Blue-naped Chlorophonia |
| Gull-billed Tern | White-crested Tyrannulet | Hooded Siskin |
| Common Tern | Sepia-capped Flycatcher | Black-chinned Siskin |
| South American Tern | Planalto Tyrannulet | House Sparrow |
| Snowy-crowned Tern | Many-coloured Rush-Tyrant | |
| Mammals | ||
| European Rabbit | Southern Elephant Seal | Agouti |
| European Hare | Mara | Coati |
| Long-haired Mouse (dead!) | Lesser Cavy | Brown Capuchin |
| Southern Right Whale | Small Brocket Deer | |
| Seven-banded Armadillo | Pampas Cavy | Tayra |
| Patagonian Skunk | Coypu (Nutria) | Brazilian Cavy |
| Guanaco | Bat sp | |
| Reptiles, Amphibians and other Critters! | ||
| Tegu Lizard | Agama Lizard sp | Coral Snake sp |
| Hog-nosed Snake sp | House Gecko | |
| Flying Ant sp | ||