A Checklist of the Birds of
A Checklist of the birds of SOUTHERN ARGENTINA


Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
  Dec
  2005
Greater Rhea x
Darwin's (Lesser) Rhea x
Red-winged Tinamou  
Darwin's Tinamou (Nothura) x
Spotted Tinamou (Nothura) h
Elegant Crested-Tinamou x
Patagonian Tinamou  
Gentoo Penguin x
Magellanic Penguin x
White-tufted Grebe x
Least Grebe  
Pied-billed Grebe x
Great Grebe x
Silvery Grebe x
Hooded Grebe x
Black-browed Albatross x
Common Giant (Antarctic) Petrel x
Hall's Giant Petrel  
Southern Fulmar  
Pintado Petrel  
White-chinned Petrel  
Manx Shearwater  
Sooty Shearwater  
Greater Shearwater  
Wilson's Storm-Petrel  
Magellanic Diving-Petrel x
Common Diving-Petrel x
Neotropic Cormorant x
Rock Shag x
Guanay Shag  
Imperial Shag x
Anhinga  
Rufescent Tiger-Heron x
Stripe-backed Bittern x
Pinnated Bittern  
Black-crowned Night-Heron x
Whistling Heron x
Snowy Egret x
White-necked (Cocoi) Heron x
Great Egret x
Cattle Egret x
Striated Heron x
Bare-faced Ibis x
White-faced Ibis x
Plumbeous Ibis  
Black-faced Ibis x
Roseate Spoonbill x
Wood Stork x
Maguari Stork x
Chilean Flamingo x
Southern Screamer x
White-faced Whistling-Duck x
Fulvous Whistling-Duck x
Coscoroba Swan x
Black-necked Swan x
DomesticGoose  
Upland Goose x
Kelp Goose x
Ashy-headed Goose x
Torrent Duck  
Ringed Teal x
Crested Duck x
Flying Steamer-Duck x
Flightless Steamer-Duck x
Chubut (White-headed) Steamer-Duck x
Brazilian Duck (Teal) x
Spectacled Duck x
Red Shoveler x
Cinnamon Teal x
Silver Teal x
Southern (Chiloe) Wigeon x
Speckled Teal x
White-cheeked Pintail  
Yellow-billed Pintail x
Rosy-billed Pochard x
Black-headed Duck x
Andean (Ruddy-) Duck x
Lake Duck x
Masked Duck  
Black Vulture x
Turkey Vulture x
Andean Condor x
White-tailed Kite x
Snail Kite x
Long-winged Harrier x
Cinereous Harrier x
Rufous-thighed Hawk  
Bicolored Hawk  
Crane Hawk  
Great Black-Hawk  
Savanna Hawk x
Bay-winged Hawk  
Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle x
Roadside Hawk x
Swainson's Hawk  
White-tailed Hawk x
Red-backed Hawk x
Rufous-tailed Hawk  
White-throated Caracara x
Striated Caracara  
Southern Caracara x
Chimango Caracara x
American Kestrel x
Aplomado Falcon x
Peregrine Falcon x
Speckled Crake  
Rufous-sided Crake  
Red-and-White Crake  
Austral Rail x
Grey-necked Wood-Rail  
Giant Wood-Rail  
Dot-winged Crake  
Spotted Rail  
Plumbeous Rail x
Common Gallinule  
Spot-flanked Gallinule x
White-winged Coot x
Red-gartered Coot x
Red-fronted Coot x
Limpkin x
Wattled Jacana x
South American Painted Snipe  
American Oystercatcher x
Blackish Oystercatcher x
Magellanic Oystercatcher x
South American (White-backed) Stilt x
Southern Lapwing x
American Golden-Plover x
Black-bellied Plover x
Semipalmated Plover  
Collared Plover  
Two-banded Plover x
Rufous-chested Dotterel  
Tawny-throated Dotterel x
South American Snipe x
Hudsonian Godwit x
Whimbrel x
Upland Sandpiper  
Greater Yellowlegs x
Lesser Yellowlegs x
Solitary Sandpiper  
Spotted Sandpiper  
Willet  
Ruddy Turnstone x
Red Knot x
Sanderling x
White-rumped Sandpiper x
Baird's Sandpiper x
Pectoral Sandpiper x
Stilt Sandpiper x
Buff-breasted Sandpiper x
Wilson's Phalarope x
White-bellied Seedsnipe  
Grey-breasted Seedsnipe  
Least Seedsnipe x
Magellanic Plover x
Snowy Sheathbill x
South Polar Skua  
Chilean Skua x
Brown Skua x
Pomarine Jaeger  
Parasitic Jaeger x
Grey-hooded Gull  
Brown-hooded Gull x
Dolphin Gull x
Olrog's Gull x
Kelp Gull x
Gull-billed Tern  
Royal Tern x
Sandwich Tern  
Cayenne Tern  
South American Tern x
Common Tern x
Snowy-crowned Tern x
Yellow-billed Tern  
Black Skimmer x
Rock Pigeon x
Picazuro Pigeon x
Spot-winged Pigeon x
Eared Dove x
Picui Ground-Dove x
Ruddy Ground-Dove  
White-tipped Dove  
White-eyed Parakeet  
Black-hooded Parakeet (Nanday) x
Burrowing Parrot x
Austral Parakeet x
Monk Parakeet x
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet  
Ash-colored Cuckoo  
Dark-billed Cuckoo x
Squirrel Cuckoo  
Guira Cuckoo x
Striped Cuckoo h
Barn Owl  
Tropical Screech-Owl  
Great Horned Owl  
Lesser (Magellanic) Horned Owl x
Rufous-legged Owl  
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl  
Austral Pygmy-Owl x
Burrowing Owl x
Striped Owl  
Short-eared Owl x
Common Nighthawk  
Nacunda Nighthawk  
Band-winged Nightjar  
Little Nightjar  
Scissor-tailed Nightjar  
Glittering-bellied Emerald x
Gilded Sapphire x
White-throated Hummingbird  
Green-backed Firecrown  
Ringed Kingfisher  
Amazon Kingfisher  
Green Kingfisher x
White Woodpecker x
White-fronted Woodpecker x
Checkered Woodpecker x
Green-barred Woodpecker x
Chilean Flicker x
Field (Campo) Flicker x
Magellanic Woodpecker x
Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper x
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper x
Common Miner x
Short-billed Miner  
Scale-throated Earthcreeper x
Eremobius (Band-tailed Earthcreeper)  
Bar-winged Cinclodes x
Oustalet's (Gray-flanked) Cinclodes  
Dark-bellied Cinclodes x
Blackish Cinclodes  
Rufous Hornero x
Thorn-tailed Rayadito x
Tufted Tit-Spinetail  
Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail x
Chotoy Spinetail x
Chicli Spinetail x
Sooty-fronted Spinetail  
Pale-breasted Spinetail  
Yellow-chinned Spinetail x
Stripe-crowned Spinetail x
Sulphur-bearded Spinetail x
Lesser Canastero x
Short-billed Canastero x
Cordilleran Canastero x
Patagonian Canastero x
Austral Canastero  
Hudson's Canastero x
Freckle-breasted Thornbird x
Little Thornbird x
Red (Bay)-capped Wren-Spinetail x
Curve-billed Reedhaunter x
Straight-billed Reedhaunter  
Wren-like Rushbird x
Lark-like Brushrunner  
Firewood-gatherer x
Brown Cacholote x
White-throated Cacholote  
Buff-browed Foliage-Gleaner  
White-throated Treerunner x
Variable Antshrike  
Rufous-capped Antshrike  
Andean (Magellanic) Tapaculo h
Southern Beardless Tyrannulet x
Scrub-Flycatcher  
(Chaco) Suiriri Flycatcher x
Large Elaenia  
Small-billed Elaenia x
White-crested Elaenia x
Sooty Tyrannulet x
White-crested Tyrannulet x
Grey-crowned Tyrannulet  
Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant  
Tufted Tit-Tyrant x
Many-coloured Rush-Tyrant x
Bearded Tachuri  
Crested Doradito  
Warbling Doradito x
Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant  
Mottled-cheeked Tyrannulet  
Bran-colored Flyctcher x
Euler's Flycatcher  
Vermilion Flycatcher x
Patagonian Tyrant  
Fire-eyed Diucon x
Grey Monjita  
Black-crowned Monjita  
White Monjita x
Chocolate-vented Tyrant x
Rusty-backed Monjita  
Great Shrike-Tyrant  
Grey-bellied Shrike-Tyrant  
Least Shrike-Tyrant  
Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant  
Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant x
Cinnamon-bellied Ground-Tyrant  
White-browed Ground-Tyrant x
Austral Negrito x
Blue-billed Black-Tyrant  
White-winged Black-Tyrant x
Spectacled Tyrant x
Black-backed Water-Tyrant  
Yellow-browed Tyrant x
Cattle Tyrant x
Brown-crested Flycatcher  
Swainson's Flycatcher x
Great Kiskadee x
Streaked Flycatcher x
Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher x
Fork-tailed Flycatcher x
Tropical Kingbird x
(White-naped) Xenopsaris x
White-winged Becard x
Green-backed Becard x
White-tipped Plantcutter x
Rufous-tailed Plantcutter x
Rufous-browed Peppershrike x
White-rumped Swallow x
Chilean Swallow x
Grey-breasted Martin x
Southern Martin x
Brown-chested Martin x
Blue-and-White Swallow x
Tawny-headed Swallow  
Sand Martin (Bank Swallow) x
Cliff Swallow  
Barn Swallow x
Grass (Sedge) Wren x
House Wren x
Masked Gnatcatcher x
Rufous-bellied Thrush x
Austral Thrush x
Creamy-bellied Thrush x
Chalk-browed Mockingbird x
Patagonian Mockingbird x
White-banded Mockingbird x
European Starling x
Correndera Pipit x
Short-billed Pipit x
Hellmayr's Pipit  
Yellowish Pipit  
Tropical Parula  
Masked Yellowthroat x
Golden-crowned Warbler  
White-lined Tanager  
Hepatic Tanager  
Sayaca Tanager x
Blue-and-Yellow Tanager x
Grey-hooded Sierra-Finch x
Patagonian Sierra-Finch x
Mourning Sierra-Finch x
Carbonated Sierra-Finch  
Yellow-bridled Finch  
Long-tailed Reed-Finch x
Common Diuca-Finch x
Black-and-Rufous Warbling-Finch x
Black-capped Warbling-Finch x
Blue-Black Grassquit  
Rusty-collared Seedeater  
Double-collared Seedeater x
Tawny-bellied Seedeater  
Dark-throated Seedeater  
Patagonian Yellow-Finch x
Saffron Finch x
Grassland Yellow-Finch x
Great Pampa-Finch x
Yellow-billed Cardinal x
Red-crested Cardinal x
Yellow Cardinal  
Grassland Sparrow  
Rufous-collared Sparrow x
Greyish Saltator x
Green-winged Saltator  
Golden-billed Saltator  
Ultramarine Grosbeak  
Solitary Cacique  
Epaulet Oriole  
Orange-backed Troupial  
Unicolored Blackbird  
Yellow-winged Blackbird x
Chestnut-capped Blackbird x
Brown-and-Yellow Marshbird x
Baywinged Cowbird x
Scarlet-headed Blackbird x
Austral Blackbird x
Screaming Cowbird x
Shiny Cowbird x
White-browed Blackbird x
Long-tailed Meadowlark x
European Greenfinch  
Hooded Siskin x
Black-chinned Siskin x
House Sparrow x
   
Total Species 259

x = observed     d = dead
  Dec
  2005
MAMMALS  
Southern Sealion x
Hairy Armadillo x
Pichi (7-banded) Armadillo x
Guanaco x
South American Skunk x
Patagonian Gray Fox x
South American Gray Fox x
Mara x
Dwarf Patagonian Cavy x
Southern Elephant Seal x
Geoffroy's Cat x
Small Cuis x
Little Grison x
Coipo or Coypu, same as Nutria x
   

A Checklist of the birds of SOUTHERN ARGENTINA
Compiled by Mike Haldeman
Bird Treks, 216 Spring Lane
Peach Bottom, PA USA 17563-4008
717-548-3303 info@birdtreks.com
www.birdtreks.com
Created by Valerie K. M. Schutsky

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