10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Schmitt is a lecturer on Ponant Antarctic cruises who lived in Chile from 2005 to 2015, and helped develop the eBird online birding tool for Chile and the rest of South America. Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy. And now – the photos.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2024
And Chilean Flamingos should be found, well, in Chile, as well as much of southwestern South America. After birding and passing through a large number of habitats, our total for the day was 109 species.) As they flew, a large group of Avocets took flight around them. Flamingos !”
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2014
The Hornby’s storm-petrel ( Oceanodroma Hornbyi ) is a fairly common bird along the coast of Peru and Chile. Most, if not all pelagic birding trips in the region record this species, often by the hundreds. There is no doubt they nest somewhere along the cost of Peru and Chile.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2015
However, there are a few stand out sites here and there that are significantly better for species like Jabiru, Lance-tailed Manakin, and Nicaraguan Grackle to name a few. From the Arenal area, it’s a pretty quick hour and a half deal up to Los Chiles. Nicaraguan Grackle only lives in marshes around Lake Nicaragua.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication. Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. Why are these issues?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
The largest of the Andean flamingos is native to the wetlands and shallow alkaline lakes of the high Andes mountain range, from southern Perú to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile. Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2015
This is partly because it leaves at such high elevations (11,811 – 15,090 feet above sea level) along the high Andes of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. The Andean Avocet breeds in small groups in loose colonies scattered along the shallow saline lagoons at high elevation. Andean Avocet.
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