Birdwatching - Bariloche - Patagonia - Argentina

Tailor-made birdwatching outings in the surroundings of Bariloche, its mountains, marshes, lakes and steppes. Please contact us for more information.

Season: year round. Best season goes from mid September to mid April

Description: The Bariloche region and other natural reserves, offer a wonderful range of spectacular scenery and also cover a significant variety of habitats. From the high-andean through wet forest and transition forest to the Patagonian steppe we can see up to around 110 native bird species. 24 from these are endemic of the Patagonian Andes.

The next is a list of some of the species we can see in our birding excursions:

Black-chested buzzard eagle

Black-chested buzzard eagle

Black-necked swan

Two male Magellanic woodpeckers

Andean condor (vultur gryphus)
Black-chested buzzard eagle (geranoaetus melanoleucus)
Red-backed hawk (buteo polyosoma)
Chimango caracara (polyborus/milvago chimango)
Crested caracara (polyborus plancus)
Peregrine falcon (falco peregrinus)
Aplomado falcon (falco femoralis)
American kestrel (falco sparverius)
Cinereous harrier (circus cinereus)
Turkey vulture (cathartes aura)
Black vulture (coragyps atratus)
Austral pigmy owl (glaucidium nanum) Endemic
Green-backed firecrown (sephanoides galeritus)
Ringed kingfisher (ceryle torquata)
Chilean flicker (colaptes pitius) Endemic
Black-throated huet-huet (pteroptochos tarnii) Endemic
Chucao tapaculo (scelorchilus rubecula) Endemic
Black-bellied shrike tyrant (agriornis montana)
Fire-eyed diucon (pyrope/xolmis pyrope) Endemic
Rufous-backed negrito (lessonia rufa)
Chilean swallow (tachycineta leucopyga)
Austral thrush (turdus falcklandii)
Black-chinned siskin (carduelis barbatus) Endemic
Yellow-bridled finch (melanodera xanthogramma) Endemic
Patagonian sierra-finch (phrygilus patagonicus) Endemic
Grey-hooded sierra-finch (phrygilus gayi)
Eared dove (zenaida auriculata)
Rufous-collared sparrow (zonotrichia capensis)
Long-tailed meadowlark (sturnella loyca)
Austral blackbird (curaeus curaeus) Endemic
Black faced ibis (theristicus melanopis)
Chilean flamingo (phoenicopterus chilensis)
Silvery grebe (podiceps occipitalis)
White-tufted grebe (podiceps rolland)
Great grebe (podiceps major)
Neotropic cormorant (phalacrocorax olivaceus)
Blue-eyed cormorant (phalacrocorax atriceps)
Black-necked swan (cygnus melancoryphus)
Upland goose (chloephaga picta)
Ashy-headed goose (chloephaga poliocephala)
Spectacled duck (anas specularis) Endemic
Yellow-billed pintail (anas georgica)
Specled teal (anas flavirostris)
Red-gartered coot ( fulica armillata)
Southern lapwing (vanellus chilensis)
Kelp gull (larus dominicanus)
Brown-hooded gull (larus maculipennis)
Austral parakeet (enicognathus ferrugineus / microsittace ferruginea) Endemic
Striped woodpecker (picoides lignarius)
Magellanic woodpecker (campephilus magellanicus) Endemic
Dark-bellied cinclodes (cinclodes patagonicus) Endemic
Thorn-tailed rayadito (aphrastura spinicauda) Endemic
White-throated treerunner (pygarrhichas albogularis) Endemic

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Andean Condor (adult) Vultur Gryphus.
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