Site Report: Talca

Black Horse Fly (Scaptia lata)

Plumbeous Rail (Pardirallus sanguinolentus)

City on the river

2020-12-16:
2020-12-19: Checking out an irrigation ditch on the edge of town where a ticking doradito had been seen the previous day.

Kingdom: Animals (26 records)

Phylum: Arthropods (1 record)

Class: Insects (1 record)

Order: Flies (1 record)
- Family: Horse Flies
- Black Horse Fly (Scaptia lata)

Phylum: Chordates (25 records)

Class: Birds (25 records)

Order: Anseriformes (2 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Yellow-Billed Teal (Anas flavirostris)
- Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)

Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Plumbeous Rail (Pardirallus sanguinolentus)

Order: Doves and Pigeons (4 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata)
- Picui Ground-Dove (Columbina picui)
- Black-winged Ground Dove (Metriopelia melanoptera)

Order: Owls And Nightjars (1 record)
- Family: Barn Owl and Grass-owls
- American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata)

Order: Pelicans (5 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Chimango Caracara (Daptrius chimango)
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Family: Grebes
- Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
- Family: Herons
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)

Order: Perching Birds (8 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Yellow-winged Blackbird (Agelasticus thilius)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Austral Blackbird (Curaeus curaeus)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Swallows
- Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Austral Thrush (Turdus falcklandii)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- White-crested Elaenia (Elaenia albiceps)
- Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)
- Family: Wrens
- Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Plovers
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)

Order: Turkey-like birds (1 record)
- Family: New World Quail
- California Quail (Callipepla californica)

Order: Vultures (2 records)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)