Site Report: Playa Temblador

Solar Eclipse July, 2, 2019

Mourning Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti) - Female

Common Miner (Geositta cunicularia)

Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater)

Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)

Rufous-banded Miner (Geositta rufipennis)

Great Grebe (Podiceps major)

Rocky coastline

2019-07-01:
2019-07-02: After some looking around and a scary morning fog, we arrived to perfectly clear weather at the beach town we visited the day before. And the restaurant was not overrun giving us a chance for a good lunch. We climbed up the hill next to town and ended up by chance more or less exactly on the centerline for the solar eclipse. Since we were also on the west coast of Chile, we were (by milliseconds) among the first people to see the eclipse!

Kingdom: Animals (20 records)

Phylum: Chordates (20 records)

Class: Birds (19 records)

Order: Boobies (1 record)
- Family: Boobies and Gannets
- Peruvian Booby (Sula variegata)

Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (1 record)
- Family: Hummingbirds
- Oasis Hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper)

Order: Pelicans (6 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)
- Family: Grebes
- White-tufted Grebe (Rollandia rolland)
- Great Grebe (Podiceps major)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Andean Ibis (Theristicus branickii)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater)
- Family: Pelicans
- Peruvian Pelican (Pelecanus thagus)

Order: Perching Birds (8 records)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Common Diuca-Finch (Diuca diuca)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Common Miner (Geositta cunicularia)
- Rufous-banded Miner (Geositta rufipennis)
- Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
- Cordilleran Canastero (Asthenes modesta)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Mourning Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti)
- Family: Tapaculo
- White-throated Tapaculo (Scelorchilus albicollis)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (2 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
- Family: Plovers
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)

Order: Vultures (1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

Class: Mammals (1 record)

Order: Carnivorans (1 record)
- Family: Mustelids
- Marine Otter (Lontra felina)