Site Report: Upper Maule River Valley
Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
White-browed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albilora)
Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata) - Male, breeding plumage
Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris)
Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina alaudina)
Black-chinned Siskin (Spinus barbatus) - Female
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) - Juvenile
Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta)
Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata)
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Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
White-browed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albilora)
Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata) - Male, breeding plumage
Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris)
Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina alaudina)
Black-chinned Siskin (Spinus barbatus) - Female
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) - Juvenile
Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta)
Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata)
High mountain road
Visits
- 2020-12-18: For this day's trip, we drove up to the top of the pass from Talca toward Argentina. When we got near the border of Argentina, we were unable to continue to Maule Lake due to Coronavirus quarantine.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (34 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(34 records)
Class: Birds
(34 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(8 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta)
- Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata)
- Crested Duck (Lophonetta specularioides)
- Spectacled Duck (Speculanas specularis)
- Chiloe Wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)
- Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
- Yellow-Billed Teal (Anas flavirostris)
- Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Red-gartered Coot (Fulica armillata)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma)
- Order: Parrots
(2 records)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
- Austral Parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineus)
- Order: Pelicans
(4 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Family: Herons
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
- Order: Perching Birds
(14 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Black-chinned Siskin (Spinus barbatus)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
- Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
- Dark-bellied Cinclodes (Cinclodes patagonicus)
- Family: Swallows
- Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
- Blue-and-white Swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
- Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina alaudina)
- Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- White-browed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albilora)
- Austral Negrito (Lessonia rufa)
- Spectacled Tyrant (Hymenops perspicillatus)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(3 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
- Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serranus)
- Family: Plovers
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
- Order: Vultures
(1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)