Tour Features

Join us on this unique birding adventure in the southernmost end of the American Continent. Patagonia is certainly a land of extremes. This southernmost tip of the American continent is a geographical region that covers the south of Argentina and Chile and has such diverse habitats as arid steppes, Southern Beech forests and of course the seashores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Divided into a wet southern and western slope and a dry eastern slope by the Andean range, Patagonia is one part of South America that offers an outstanding diversity of birds, with some 60 species almost restricted, or endemic to this unique region.

Eastern Patagonia is a land of vast solitudes. It is here where the arid steppes of the Patagonian Plateau reach the Atlantic Ocean. Tall sedimentary cliffs frame endless gravel beaches in this area, providing shelter to innumerable seabirds and marine mammals that make their home in these remote, barren shores. Eastern Patagonia’s unique wilderness allures naturalists the world over, imprinting strong memories in the minds of many remarkable ones like Charles Darwin, Gerald Durrell, William Henry Hudson and Sir David Attenborough. Books like The Voyage of the Beagle, The Whispering Land and Idle Days in Patagonia, and documentaries like the chapter of BBC’s The Trials of Life featuring Orcas hunting sea lions on the shores of the Valdés Peninsula, reflect their personal experiences in this magical land.

Some Birds We’ll Look For

Bahía Blanca: Olrog’s Gull, Hudsonian Godwit, Many-colored Rush Tyrant, Pampas Meadowlark, Gull-billed Tern, Snowy-crowned Tern, American Cliff Swallow, Chaco Earthcreeper, Stripe-crowned Spinetail, Sharp-billed Canastero, Short-billed Canastero, Firewood-Gatherer, Short-billed Pipit, Straneck’s Tyrannulet, Black-crowned Monjita, White-winged Black Tyrant, Ringed Warbling Finch and Band-tailed Seedeater.

Las Grutas and San Antonio Oeste: Darwin’s Nothura, Sandy Gallito, Burrowing Parrot, Carbonated Sierra Finch, Hudson’s Black Tyrant, Scaly-throated Earthcreeper, White-throated Cacholote, Short-billed Canastero, Austral Thrush, Greater Wagtail-Tyrant, White-tipped Plantcutter, Common Diuca Finch and Cinnamon Warbling Finch.

Puerto Madryn to Comodoro Rivadavia: Lesser Rhea, Elegant Crested Tinamou, Magellanic Penguin, Chubut Steamer Duck, Blackish Oystercatcher, Dolphin Gull, Brown Skua, Cordilleran Canastero, Scaly-throated Earthcreeper, Patagonian Mockingbird, Patagonian Canastero and Carbonated Sierra Finch.

Puerto Deseado: Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Black-browed Albatross, Southern Giant Petrel, Sooty Shearwater, Rock Shag, Imperial Shag, Red-legged Cormorant, Flying Steamer Duck, Least Seedsnipe, Tawny-throated Dotterel, Dolphin Gull, Snowy Sheathbill, Brown and Chilean skuas, Band-tailed Earthcreeper, Chocolate-vented Tyrant, Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant and Black-chinned Siskin.

INFORMATION

Arrival

Morning meeting at Bahía Blanca Airport. Afternoon birding around Bahía Blanca. O/N Bahía Blanca.

Bahía Blanca

Full day birding different habitats around Bahía Blanca. O/N Bahía Blanca.

Transfer to Las Grutas.

Bahía Blanca to Las Grutas. O/N Las Grutas.

Las Grutas

Full day birding Las Grutas and San Antonio Oeste. O/N Las Grutas.

Transfer to Puerto Madryn.

Morning birding around Las Grutas. Afternoon drive to Puerto Madryn. O/N Puerto Madryn.

Cabo Dos Bahías.

Puerto Madryn to Cabo Dos Bahías and on to Comodoro Rivadavia. O/N Comodoro Rivadavia.

Comodoro Rivadavia

Comodoro Rivadavia to Puerto Deseado. O/N Puerto Deseado.

Puerto Deseado

Full day birding Puerto Deseado and the estuary of the Deseado River. O/N Puerto Deseado.

Penguin Island

Full day birding Penguin Island. O/N Puerto Deseado.

Tour conclusion

Puerto Deseado to Comodoro Rivadavia Airport. Tour conclusion

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