Birds found during the
FONT Birding Tour 
in Central
CHILE

November 2
1-26, 2007


In the Andes east of Santiago, 
on a pelagic trip from Valparaiso,
& in between


 

List compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the tour 


Photo at right: ANDEAN CONDOR


Codes:

In central Chile: 
between the Andes & the seacoast: cc
in the Andes: ca
along the seacoast: cs
on the pelagic trip from Valparaiso: vp     


(CHe): endemic to Chile 
(CHqe): quasi (or nearly) endemic to Chile
(CHr): rare in Chile
(CHi): introduced in Chile

(t): a threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical (t2): endangered (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.


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In cumulative lists of birds, scientific names are given & subspecies are noted.

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Bird-List:

  1. Humboldt (or Peruvian) Penguin (t3) - cs

  2. White-tufted Grebe - cs

  3. Pied-billed Grebe - cc

  4. Northern Royal Albatross (t2) - vp

  5. Black-browed Albatross (nt) - vp

  6. Buller's Albatross (t3)  -  vp

  7. Salvin's Albatross (t3) - vp

  8. Southern Giant Petrel (t3) - vp

  9. Southern Fulmar - vp

  10. Cape Petrel (or Pintado) - vp

  11. White-chinned Petrel - vp

  12. Pink-footed Shearwater (t3) - vp

  13. Sooty Shearwater - vp

  14. Wilson's Storm-Petrel - vp

  15. Peruvian Pelican - cs,vp

  16. Peruvian Booby - cs,vp

  17. Neotropic (formerly Olivaceous) Cormorant - cc,cs

  18. Guanay Cormorant - cs,vp

  19. Red-legged Shag  (nt) - cs 

  20. Cocoi Heron - cc

  21. Cattle Egret - cc

  22. Snowy Egret - cc,cs

  23. Great Egret - cc,cs

  24. Black-crowned Night Heron - cc,cs

  25. Black-necked Swan - cs

  26. Andean Goose - cc

  27. Torrent Duck - ca

  28. Crested Duck - ca

  29. Chiloe (or Southern) Wigeon - cc

  30. Yellow-billed (or Brown) Pintail - cc

  31. Red Shoveler - cs

  32. Cinnamon Teal - cs

  33. Speckled Teal - ca

  34. Lake Duck - cs

  35. Andean Condor - ca

  36. Black Vulture - cs

  37. Turkey Vulture - cs

  38. White-tailed Kite - cc

  39. Cinereous Harrier - cc

  40. Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle - ca

  41. "Red-backed" Variable Hawk - cc

  42. Bay-winged (or Harris's) Hawk - cc 

  43. Chimango Caracara - cc,cs

  44. American Kestrel - cc,cs

  45. California Quail (CHi) - cc,ca

  46. Plumbeous Rail - cc

  47. Red-gartered Coot - cc,cs

  48. White-winged Coot - cs

  49. Red-fronted Coot - cs

  50. South American (or White-backed) Stilt - cc

  51. American Oystercatcher - cs

  52. Blackish Oystercatcher - cs

  53. Southern Lapwing - cc,cs,ca

  54. Gray-breasted Seedsnipe - ca

  55. South American Snipe - ca

  56. Whimbrel - cs

  57. Lesser Yellowlegs - cc,cs

  58. Ruddy Turnstone - cs

  59. Surfbird - cs

  60. Baird's Sandpiper - ca

  61. Red Phalarope - vp

  62. Gray Gull - cs

  63. Kelp Gull - cc,cs,vp

  64. Brown-hooded Gull - cc,cs

  65. Franklin's Gull - cs,vp

  66. Sabine's Gull - vp

  67. South American Tern - cs,vp

  68. Common Tern - cs,vp

  69. Arctic Tern - vp

  70. Snowy-crowned (or Trudeau's) Tern - vp

  71. Elegant Tern - cs,vp

  72. Inca Tern - cs,vp

  73. Black Skimmer - cs

  74. Chilean Pigeon (nt) (CHqe) - cc

  75. Feral (or Rock) Pigeon (i) - cc,cs,ca

  76. Eared Dove - cc,cs

  77. Picui Ground-Dove - cc,cs

  78. Black-winged Ground-Dove - cc,ca

  79. Burrowing Owl - cc

  80. White-sided Hillstar - ca 

  81. Giant Hummingbird - ca

  82. Chilean Flicker - cc

  83. Common Miner - ca

  84. Rufous-banded Miner - ca

  85. Straight-billed Earthcreeper - ca

  86. Bar-winged Cinclodes - ca

  87. Gray-flanked Cinclodes - ca

  88. Chilean Seaside-Cinclodes (CHe) - cs

  89. Crag Chilia (CHe) - ca

  90. Wren-like Rushbird - cc,cs

  91. Dusky-tailed Canastero (CHe) - cc

  92. Moustached Turca (CHe) - ca

  93. Dusky Tapaculo - ca

  94. Rufous-tailed Plantcutter - ca 

  95. Fire-eyed Diucon - cc

  96. Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrant - ca

  97. Black-fronted Ground-Tyrant - ca

  98. Cinereous Ground-Tyrant - ca

  99. Austral Negrito - cs,ca

  100. Spectacled Tyrant - cc,cs

  101. Many-colored Rush-Tyrant - cc

  102. Warbling Doradito - cc

  103. Tufted Tit-Tyrant - cc

  104. White-crested Elaenia - cc

  105. Austral Thrush - cc,cs

  106. Chilean Mockingbird (CHe) - cc,cs,ca

  107. Chilean Swallow - cc,cs

  108. Blue-and-white Swallow - cc,ca

  109. Sedge (or Grass) Wren - cc

     

  110. (Southern) House Wren - cc,ca,cs

  111. House Sparrow (i) - cc,cs,ca

  112. Correndera Pipit - cc

  113. Band-tailed Sierra-Finch - ca

  114. Plumbeous Sierra-Finch - ca

  115. Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch - ca

  116. Mourning Sierra-Finch - ca

  117. Common Diuca-Finch - cc,cs,ca

  118. Greater Yellow Finch - ca

  119. Grassland Yellow-Finch - cc

  120. Rufous-collared Sparrow - cc,cs,ca

  121. Shiny (or Glossy) Cowbird - cc,cs

  122. Austral Blackbird - cc,cs,ca

  123. Yellow-winged Blackbird - cc,cs

  124. Long-tailed Meadowlark - cc,cs,ca

  125. Black-chinned Siskin - cc

  126. Yellow-rumped Siskin - ca



Mammal found during the FONT Tour 
in Central
Chile 
in November 2007 


Codes:

in central Chile: 
between the Andes & the seacoast: cc
in the Andes: ca
along the seacoast: cs


Marine Mammal:
 

  1. Southern (or South American) Sea Lion - cs
    Otaria byronia