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Birding Chile – The other West Coast Alvaro Jaramillo

Birding Chile – The other West Coast Alvaro Jaramillo. A great country for birding. . Absolute desert . Absolute desert . Mediterranean “Matorral” . Absolute desert . Mediterranean “Matorral” . Temperate Rainforest. Absolute desert . Mediterranean “Matorral” . Temperate

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Birding Chile – The other West Coast Alvaro Jaramillo

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  1. Birding Chile – The other West Coast Alvaro Jaramillo

  2. A great country for birding.

  3. Absolute desert

  4. Absolute desert Mediterranean “Matorral”

  5. Absolute desert Mediterranean “Matorral” Temperate Rainforest

  6. Absolute desert Mediterranean “Matorral” Temperate Rainforest Steppes Glaciers Magellanic Tundra

  7. Baja California California British Columbia Alaska

  8. Diversity of habitats

  9. Absolute Desert and Oasis Valleys.

  10. ©Richard Stillwel

  11. The life is to the east and west of the desert!

  12. This isn’t Kansas anymore…. • Franklin’s Gull: • Main arrival mid November. • Non stop southward moving lines of birds. • Main associate is the Elegant Tern.

  13. Southern Cross Peregrines –Falcon Research Group tundrius Peregrines. • Several captured in Chile. • Wintering areas. • Elliptical migration • Were they tracking the shorebirds????

  14. Passerine winterers are few! Regular migrants • Barn Swallow • Cliff Swallow • Bank Swallow Vagrants • Eastern Kingbird • Western Wood-Pewee • Veery • American Redstart • Blackpoll Warbler • Tennessee Warbler • Canada Warbler • Northern Waterthrush • Summer Tanager • Baltimore Oriole

  15. Mystery of the Chimney Swift • Most are unaccounted for in winter! • But also they are difficult to separate from South American resident swifts (not so in Chile).

  16. Guano Species From the Quechua “Wanu” for manure. Approximately 2 million guano birds left, most in Peru. Estimated that 100 years ago the population was 50 million!

  17. Breeding grounds of most Humboldt Current storm-petrels unknown!

  18. Unknown storm petrel!

  19. The life is to the east and west of the desert!

  20. High diversity of coots For some unknown reason. Six species in Chile!

  21. Grebes, and their relatives, also diverse

  22. Flycatchers gone “Mountain Bluebird”.

  23. Furnariid “Ovenbirds” gone thrasher

  24. Range restricted species

  25. Mediterranean – “Matorral”

  26. Endemic Zone © Winty Harrington © Jovino Haroldo Avaria

  27. A flycatcher which eats hummingbirds, and an identification nightmare.

  28. Andean birds

  29. Finches like the Andes!But are they finches?

  30. Melanodera finches

  31. Tapaculos !

  32. Tapaculo without a name !

  33. Taxonomic puzzles

  34. Taxonomy to sort out! • Common Miner: may be 3 species • Rufous-banded Miner: 2 species. • Bar-winged Cinclodes: 3 species. • Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail: 2 or more species. • Etc. • Do you know what this means?

  35. Reunite Gondwanaland! Plate tectonic maps and Continental drift animations by C. R. Scotese,PALEOMAP Project (www.scotese.com)

  36. Dromiciops australis • “Monito del Monte” • New world marsupial more closely allied to Australian marsupials. • Fitzroya cuppresoides • “Alerce” • Fossils from Tasmania. • Second oldest individual tree in the world, 3622 years old.

  37. Isolated “Gondwana” Forests

  38. Remnants of another era?

  39. Forest flocks • Thorn-tailed Rayadito is a creeper – chickadee. • White-throated Treerunner is a nuthatch. ©George Armistead

  40. Ecological Replacements ©George Armistead White-throated Treerunner White-breasted Nuthatch

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