Trip Report: Chile 2020 (2020-12-10 - 2020-12-25)
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
Total Solar Eclipse, through light clouds.
Christmas Star
Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) - Female
Many-colored Rush-Tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra)
Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
Chilean Cicada (Tettigades limbata)
Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica) - In Flight
Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) - Male
Gray-breasted Seedsnipe (Thinocorus orbignyianus) - Male
Blue-Green Smooth-throated Lizard (Liolaemus tenuis)
Creamy-rumped Miner (Geositta isabellina)
White-browed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albilora)
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
Euathlus Tarantula (Euathlus ssp)
Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis) - Breeding
Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)
Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
Black Horse Fly (Scaptia lata)
Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
Diademed Sandpiper-Plover (Phegornis mitchellii)
Creamy-rumped Miner (Geositta isabellina)
Rufous-tailed Plantcutter (Phytotoma rara)
White-crested Elaenia (Elaenia albiceps)
Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
Ochre-naped Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola flavinucha)
Black-faced Ibis (Theristicus melanopis)
Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca)
Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata) - Male, breeding plumage
Great Grebe (Podiceps major)
Great Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis lividus)
Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda)
Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula)
Red-fronted Coot (Fulica rufifrons)
Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris)
Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris) - Female
Austral Parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineus)
Black-chinned Siskin (Spinus barbatus)
Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis)
Great Grebe (Podiceps major)
White-throated Treerunner (Pygarrhichas albogularis)
Southern Grumbler (Pristidactylus torquatus)
Northern Painted Smooth-throated Lizard (Liolaemus septentrionalis)
Fire-eyed Diucon (Xolmis pyrope)
Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma)
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Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
Total Solar Eclipse, through light clouds.
Christmas Star
Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) - Female
Many-colored Rush-Tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra)
Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
Chilean Cicada (Tettigades limbata)
Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica) - In Flight
Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) - Male
Gray-breasted Seedsnipe (Thinocorus orbignyianus) - Male
Blue-Green Smooth-throated Lizard (Liolaemus tenuis)
Creamy-rumped Miner (Geositta isabellina)
White-browed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albilora)
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
Euathlus Tarantula (Euathlus ssp)
Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis) - Breeding
Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)
Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
Black Horse Fly (Scaptia lata)
Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
Diademed Sandpiper-Plover (Phegornis mitchellii)
Creamy-rumped Miner (Geositta isabellina)
Rufous-tailed Plantcutter (Phytotoma rara)
White-crested Elaenia (Elaenia albiceps)
Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
Ochre-naped Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola flavinucha)
Black-faced Ibis (Theristicus melanopis)
Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca)
Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata) - Male, breeding plumage
Great Grebe (Podiceps major)
Great Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis lividus)
Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda)
Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula)
Red-fronted Coot (Fulica rufifrons)
Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris)
Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris) - Female
Austral Parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineus)
Black-chinned Siskin (Spinus barbatus)
Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis)
Great Grebe (Podiceps major)
White-throated Treerunner (Pygarrhichas albogularis)
Southern Grumbler (Pristidactylus torquatus)
Northern Painted Smooth-throated Lizard (Liolaemus septentrionalis)
Fire-eyed Diucon (Xolmis pyrope)
Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma)
This was a last minute trip to Chile after they opened their borders just prior to the 2020 solar eclipse.
Sites Visited
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (146 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(4 records)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Tarantulas
- Euathlus Tarantula (Euathlus ssp)
Class: Insects
(3 records)
- Order: Bees, Wasps, and Ants
(1 record)
- Family: Thynnid Flower Wasps
- Thynnid Flower Wasp (Elaphroptera nigripennis)
- Order: Flies
(1 record)
- Family: Horse Flies
- Black Horse Fly (Scaptia lata)
- Order: True Bugs
(1 record)
- Family: Cicadas
- Chremistica Cicada (Chremistica ssp)
Phylum: Chordates
(142 records)
Class: Birds
(136 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(17 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Lake Duck (Oxyura vittata)
- Black-necked Swan (Cygnus melancoryphus)
- Coscoroba Swan (Coscoroba coscoroba)
- Graylag Goose (Anser anser)
- Andean Goose (Oressochen melanopterus)
- Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta)
- Ashy-headed Goose (Chloephaga poliocephala)
- Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
- Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata)
- Crested Duck (Lophonetta specularioides)
- Spectacled Duck (Speculanas specularis)
- Chiloe Wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)
- Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
- Red Shoveler (Spatula platalea)
- Yellow-Billed Teal (Anas flavirostris)
- Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (4 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons (5 records)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(3 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus)
- White-throated Hawk (Buteo albigula)
- Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (3 records)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
(1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)
- Order: Owls And Nightjars
(1 record)
- Family: Barn Owl and Grass-owls
- American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata)
- Order: Parrots
(2 records)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
- Austral Parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineus)
- Order: Pelicans (26 records)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus)
- Chimango Caracara (Daptrius chimango)
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Family: Grebes
- White-tufted Grebe (Rollandia rolland)
- Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
- Great Grebe (Podiceps major)
- Silvery Grebe (Podiceps occipitalis)
- Family: Herons
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Western Cattle Egret (Ardea ibis)
- Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi)
- Black-faced Ibis (Theristicus melanopis)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
- Family: Pelicans
- Peruvian Pelican (Pelecanus thagus)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Magellanic Snipe (Gallinago magellanica)
- Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
- Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
- Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
- Sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
- Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
- Family: Stilts and Avocets
- Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(54 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Yellow-winged Blackbird (Agelasticus thilius)
- Long-tailed Meadowlark (Leistes loyca)
- Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Black-chinned Siskin (Spinus barbatus)
- Yellow-rumped Siskin (Spinus uropygialis)
- Common Diuca-Finch (Diuca diuca)
- Austral Blackbird (Curaeus curaeus)
- Family: Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies
- Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Creamy-rumped Miner (Geositta isabellina)
- Rufous-banded Miner (Geositta rufipennis)
- Scale-throated Earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)
- Buff-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus)
- Gray-flanked Cinclodes (Cinclodes oustaleti)
- Dark-bellied Cinclodes (Cinclodes patagonicus)
- Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda)
- Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura aegithaloides)
- Sharp-billed Canastero (Asthenes pyrrholeuca)
- Cordilleran Canastero (Asthenes modesta)
- Dusky-tailed Canastero (Pseudasthenes humicola)
- White-throated Treerunner (Pygarrhichas albogularis)
- Family: Swallows
- Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta leucopyga)
- Blue-and-white Swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus gayi)
- Patagonian Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus patagonicus)
- Mourning Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina fruticeti)
- Plumbeous Sierra-Finch (Geospizopsis unicolor)
- Band-tailed Sierra-Finch (Rhopospina alaudina)
- Greater Yellow-Finch (Sicalis auriventris)
- Grassland Yellow-Finch (Sicalis luteola)
- Family: Tapaculo
- Black-throated Huet-huet (Pteroptochos tarnii)
- Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius)
- Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula)
- Magellanic Tapaculo (Scytalopus magellanicus)
- Chestnut-throated Huet-huet (Pteroptochos castaneus)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Austral Thrush (Turdus falcklandii)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- White-crested Elaenia (Elaenia albiceps)
- Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)
- Many-colored Rush-Tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra)
- Fire-eyed Diucon (Pyrope pyrope)
- Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis montanus)
- Great Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis lividus)
- Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola maculirostris)
- Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola rufivertex)
- White-browed Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albilora)
- Cinereous Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola cinereus)
- Ochre-naped Ground-Tyrant (Muscisaxicola flavinucha)
- Austral Negrito (Lessonia rufa)
- Spectacled Tyrant (Hymenops perspicillatus)
- Rufous-tailed Plantcutter (Phytotoma rara)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Correndera Pipit (Anthus correndera)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(12 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)
- Gray Gull (Leucophaeus modestus)
- Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
- Brown-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis)
- Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serranus)
- Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
- Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans)
- Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
- Family: Plovers
- Collared Plover (Anarhynchus collaris)
- Diademed Sandpiper-Plover (Phegornis mitchellii)
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
- Family: Seedsnipes
- Gray-breasted Seedsnipe (Thinocorus orbignyianus)
- Order: Tubenoses
(2 records)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus)
- Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(1 record)
- Family: New World Quail
- California Quail (Callipepla californica)
- Order: Vultures
(3 records)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
- Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(2 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Striped Woodpecker (Dryobates lignarius)
- Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus)
Class: Mammals
(3 records)
- Order: Lagomorpha
(1 record)
- Family: Leporidae
- European Hare (Lepus europaeus)
- Order: Rodents
(2 records)
- Family: Chinchillas and Viscachas
- Mountain Viscacha (Lagidium viscacia)
- Family: Nutrias
- Coypu (Myocastor coypus)
Class: Reptiles
(3 records)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes (3 records)
- Family: Smooth Anoles
- Southern Grumbler (Pristidactylus torquatus)