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. There is no doubt they nest somewhere along the cost of Peru and Chile. Most, if not all pelagic birding trips in the region record this species, often by the hundreds. But as common as they may be, nobody knows where they nest.

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Peru Chile Rescue Breeding 269

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MARCH 28, 2024

And Chilean Flamingos should be found, well, in Chile, as well as much of southwestern South America. American Flamingos do occur naturally in Mexico, but only on the Yucatán peninsula in the country’s extreme southwest. So both birds are assumed by many to be escapees from a zoo or a private collection somewhere.

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Mexico Cuba Chile South America 188

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The mosaic of wetlands, forest, and other habitats here and near Los Chiles are the only places to see Nicaraguan Grackle and are really good for connecting with a host of local species and uncommon wetland birds. If I visit the La Gamba area, that could give me key species like Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager , a few owls, and some others.

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Costa Rica Chile Birds Owls 231

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MAY 30, 2015

Ironically, thanks to the non-sustainable, land poisoning agriculture seen en route, there is a straight, fast, good road that zooms right on up to Los Chiles, the closest town to Cano Negro. From the Arenal area, it’s a pretty quick hour and a half deal up to Los Chiles. Get those bonus birds at Los Chiles and Cano Negro!

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Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

During the months of December, January, February, and March, the bird community along Florida’s east coast is similar to that along the coast of Central Peru and North-Central Chile. The composition of the bird community is remarkably similar in the region encompassing Central Peru to Central Chile. Photo: Jorge Novoa.

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Chile Peru South America Florida 188

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AUGUST 13, 2015

This gull inhabits the high Andean plateau of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina at elevations ranging from 3300 to 4400 m (10827 to 14436 feet). Photo by: Chile Satelital. It normally lives as far from the sea as can be. A few vagrant birds are reported at coastal lagoons and estuaries. Andean Gull in alternate plumage.

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Chile Bolivia Peru Argentina 161

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JULY 6, 2013

Continued from: Birdwatching Santidago de Chile Part 2. A great way to travel in Chile and Argentina is by bus. We took two overnight buses to get us from Santiago de Chile to San Miguel de Tucuman in northern Argentina.

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Argentina Chile Birds Farming 145

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

From Southern California, thru Mexico to Chile. When we sailed to Mexico, I discovered a whole new species, the American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus. This vividly colored bird, is seen from the northeast coastal areas of the US, down to Florida. They are quite often seen in the company of other shorebirds.

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Mexico Chile Florida California 154

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JUNE 25, 2011

Situated on Chile’s Pacific coast, the Atacama Desert is one of the driest areas in the world with rain falling on only a handful of occasions over a century. The poorly defined borders of the region were disputed by Chile and Bolivia. That’s when the strain was felt and Chile began to push.

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Bolivia Chile Spain America 187

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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.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

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MAY 4, 2013

Also we found some cheaper flights going to Santiago de Chile and leaving from Buenos Aires so we decided to put together a birding trip to take advantage of all of these savings. Luckily Chile and Argentina are well covered in the Garmin South American Map which proved to be essential if you are driving in new places.

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Argentina Chile Ecuador Birds 181

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AUGUST 15, 2013

I just read on the news that about 20 Andean Condors (Vultur gryphus) were poisoned in Chile. Unlike the unintentional poisoning of these Condors in Chile, people in other parts of the Andes set poisoned bate to eliminate condor. Other birds were seen crash landing. Another sick condor and two dead ones were found nearby.

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Livestock Chile Colombia Ecuador 174

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MAY 9, 2017

All only spend a small—albeit critical—portion of their lives on their breeding grounds.

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Albatross Hawaii Puerto Rico Chile 138

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Once at home, I looked at Wildfowl by Steve Madge and Hilary Burn, to quickly discover that I was watching the Chiloe Wigeon , indigenous to Chile and Argentina. (I also digiscoped a few lousy photos.) Well, an escapee it may be, but still something totally new and challenging (also, a first for Serbia).

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Chile Argentina Serbia Raised 303

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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 is not a rare bird, but not a lot of folks have seen it. Andean Avocet.

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Bolivia Chile Argentina North America 165

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

King Penguins breed in Antarctica, the Falklands and a few other South Atlantic islands, and in Argentina and Chile, along that odd border between the two countries in Tierra del Fuego. Except birders. We know better.

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2017 Penguins Argentina Chile 113

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APRIL 7, 2020

The beauty of these scenes of falcons and raptors nesting in Africa, Canada, Wales, and Chile are thrilling, but the accompanying scenes of Lendrum stealing the eggs, sometimes with the parents flying in distress above him, are disturbing. ” [loc.3014, 3014, Kindle ed.]

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 205

Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Here's an article spotlighting farmed fishing in Chile. Tags: fisheries chile fish latin america environment. But, as with any kind of mass production, this is filled with all kinds of risks. It's really damned if you do and damned if you don't. Eat wild runs and cause their extinction. Best not to eat either.

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Fish Farming Chile America 100

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JUNE 7, 2013

Look up, at least if you are birding coastal Chile like Renato was ! Looking for boobies? Birding and parenting don’t always go together well. In fact, many attempts to combine the two end in compromised results in both endeavors.

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Chile 2013 Birds 156

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APRIL 24, 2013

The Surfbird outside of the breeding season can be found along almost the entire Pacific Coast of the Americas, from southeastern Alaska all the way to Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile. In breeding season, Surfbird is found in mountain ranges scattered throughout Alaska and the Yukon Territory 1. Truly a West Coast species.

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Alaska Chile 2013 Breeding 170

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JULY 19, 2018

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Central African Republic Guyana 193

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APRIL 25, 2019

Here are the results: 3 per cent of respondents (in no particular order): Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Tanzania, Madagascar. Before I present the statistics, I should repeat that I had no intention of doing research, that 71 birders is a rather small number, but I still found some answers statistically important and worth sharing.

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

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MAY 18, 2012

Actitus macularius , as spotties are known to the scientific set, are widespread across North America and winter across Central and South America, even as far south as Chile. When they are not getting ready to breed they are a pretty bland brown-and-white bird.

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New Jersey North America Chile South America 173

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Even more exciting has been the public response, with over 7,000 resightings reported in less than a year by recreational birders spanning the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to Chile. Eveling holding a Federally listed Red Knot. Notice the green flag indicating this birds was banded in the United States.

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Peru South America Delaware Chile 225

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JULY 5, 2014

The nominate is found to the west in Chile with a separate population in NW Peru. The Great Grebe , Podiceps major , is a bird of South America where it frequents large waters and coastline on both sides of the continent. From southern Brazil on the east coast, it extends down through Uruguay and Argentina as far as the cape.

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Argentina Uruguay Chile Brazil 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Shorebirds appeared in posts by folks from Peru, Chile and Argentina not from folks from Central America. Because shorebirds start relatively early and shoot out to the wintering grounds without much stopping over, they also showed in my feed earlier than all other Neotropical migrants. Broad-winged Hawk.

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South America Colombia Peru Chile 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

For those who have been on pelagic trips in places such as California, Chile, or Australia, keep in mind that pelagic trips in Florida almost always feature long birdless stretches interspersed with brief spurts of activity. Cory’s Shearwater is regular in Florida’s pelagic waters.

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Sea Turtles Florida Chile Dolphins 163

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Peruvian Pelican is restricted to the cold water of the Humboldt Current along the coast of Peru and Chile. The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds.

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Pelicans North America Peru Chile 157

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MAY 11, 2013

The far-inland Chattanoogan newspaper in Tennessee shares a story about an international team of researchers tracking half a dozen Pink-footed Shearwaters from Chile to North America and back in hopes of learning about the at-risk birds’ habits and how better to protect them.

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Michigan Chile Tennessee North America 147

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Frigatebirds don’t occur in the cold waters of the coast of Peru and Chile, but Band-tailed Gulls (Larus belcheri) have developed similar strategy. They are known to hover over seabird nesting colonies, waiting for parent birds to return to the colony with their crops full of food.

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 189

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JANUARY 28, 2014

We have great memories of this trip and for those who want to jump back in time here is a link to all the previous Trip Reports as a SUMMARY: * This is how this trip was planned. *

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Argentina Chile Farming Birds 182

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AUGUST 24, 2016

The Common Gallinule , is the most wide spread of all the members of the rail family, being found from Canada, to Chile, Europe, Asia, Africa, much of the Pacific, and the Galapagos Islands. Very much omnivorous, they consume plant life, spiders, works, frogs, well, pretty much anything that you might find in a reedy, swampy area.

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Chile Breeders Asia Mexico 100

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JUNE 24, 2011

In Chile I got the best view of an Andean Condor of the entire trip while having a cheeky poo under a monkey puzzle pine on the side of a volcano. And it wasn’t just birds either: also in Chile one time I sped out of my tent and jogged into the forest for an urgent night poo.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 190

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MARCH 3, 2018

The straw-colored Pinnated Bittern is a tough one to find in Costa Rica unless you do some dawn or late afternoon birding at marshes in Cano Negro or the Medio Queso site near Los Chiles. We got two of them at Medio Queso when they did a bit of bittern booming and stalking through the grass around five p.m.

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Costa Rica Chile Birds Owls 100

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JULY 22, 2014

The following decades continued the great expansion, and it was recorded breeding in Canada in 1962 and Chile by 1970. Cattle Egret was first recorded in Florida in 1941 (although originally these were dismissed as escapes), and officially bred in Florida in 1953. Cattle Egret has been introduced by humans to Hawaii and the Seychelles.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The link between Darwin’s earlier observations on the Falklands and his later observations on the Galapagos is seen in this passage regarding mockingbirds: These birds are closely allied in appearance to the Thenca of Chile or Callandra of La Plata. I imagined however its note or cry was rather different from the Thenca of Chile?

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Tortoises Panama South America Culling 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2013

The handsome Slender-billed Finch is restricted coastal habitats from central Peru to Northern Chile. Take for instance White-crested Elaenia , Southern Beardless Tyrannulet , Blue-Black Grassquit , Chestnut-throated , Parrot-billed , and Drab-seedeaters , and the Slender-billed Finch. Photo: Juan Chalco.

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Peru Birds Chile Parrots 170