CALILEGUA NATIONAL PARK & LIST
ARGENTINA
JUJUY (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (5th August, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
The Calilegua National Park can be reached fairly easy from Jujuy or Salta. There is only 1 local bus a day leaving Libertador San Martin for Valle Grande passing the park entrance. This leaves at 8am so I had to leave Jujuy at 5:30am. Buses from Jujuy to Libertador are very frequent. The park is 10km along a gravel road from the main road near Libertador. It would also be possible to hitch or get a taxi. There are several trails within the park of various distances and difficulties. I saw Red-faced Guans on the very short trail number 2, White-throated Antpitta on number 3 and Short-tailed Hawk along 4 which is the longest and follows a rocky river bed along. Great Rufous Woodcreeper was seen just across from the Guardaparque. I saw 43 species including lifer.
Species seen
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
- Buff-necked Ibis Theristicus caudatus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Southern Caracara Caracara plancus
- Red-faced Guan Penelope dabbenei
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Planalto Hermit Phaethornis pretrei
- White-chinned Sapphire ? Hylocharis cyanus
- White-bellied Hummingbird Leucippus chionogaster
- Speckled Hummingbird ? Adelomyia melanogenys
- Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides
- Red-tailed Comet Sappho sparganura
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Toco Toucan h Ramphastos toco
- White-barred Piculet Picumnus cirratus
- Bar-winged Cinclodes ? Cinclodes fuscus
- Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae
- Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia
- Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Great Rufous Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes major
- Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens
- White-throated Antpitta Grallaria albigula
- Highland Elaenia ? Elaenia obscura
- Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ventralis
- Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum plumbeiceps
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Andean Tyrant ? Knipolegus signatus
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Rufous-bellied Thrush Turdus rufiventris
- Plush-crested Jay Cyanocorax chrysops
- Tropical Parula Parula pitiayumi
- Brown-capped Redstart Myioborus brunniceps
- Two-banded Warbler Basileuterus bivittatus
- Common Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus ophthalmicus
- Rusty-browed Warbling-Finch Poospiza erythrophrys
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
- Saffron-billed Sparrow Arremon flavirostris
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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