Site Report: Upper Maule River Valley, Chile
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
- Chiloe Wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)
- Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
- Crested Duck (Lophonetta specularioides)
- Spectacled Duck (Speculanas specularis)
- Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata)
- Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta)
- Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
- Yellow-Billed Teal (Anas flavirostris)
- 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
- Austral Parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineus)
- Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
- Order: Pelicans
(4 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Family: Herons
- Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- 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
- Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
- Dark-bellied Cinclodes (Cinclodes patagonicus)
- Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
- Family: Swallows
- Blue-and-white Swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca)
- Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Band-tailed Sierra Finch (Rhopospina alaudina)
- Gray-hooded Sierra Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
- Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Austral Negrito (Lessonia rufa)
- Spectacled Tyrant (Hymenops perspicillatus)
- White-browed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albilora)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(3 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serranus)
- Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
- Family: Plovers
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
- Order: Vultures
(1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)