MIRAMAR & LIST
ARGENTINA
CORDOBA (Compass)
00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (27th-28th July, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
Miramar is a small town on the banks of the huge Laguna Mar Chiquita. The town is reached by regular buses from Cordoba in 3 hours. There are several hotels and restaurants in town and an interpretive centre for the area which is a provincial nature reserve. Some waterbirds can be seen by the lakeside in town and good birding areas are 5-6km from town. Follow the signs from the centre to the Observatorio de Aves. This is a tower over-looking the lake. A better place though is about a further 2 km from here. By the large observatorio sign, follow the road to the left instead of straight on. after a km or 2 there is a building on the left (the new school) and after an abandoned building on the right with a football pitch next to it. Turn right here and down a track (you may have to open a cattle fence). This track runs parrallel with the lake and there were hundreds of flamingos including at least 50 Puna Flamingos. The track ends at a river mouth. Along the river and on the lakeside near here are some patches of reeds and bushes where I search for Dinelli's Doradito but did not find. I saw 91 species including 1 lifer.
Species seen
- Spotted Nothura Nothura maculosa
- White-tufted Grebe Rollandia rolland
- Great Grebe Podiceps major
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
- Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis Near-threatened
- Puna Flamingo Phoenicopterus jamesi Near-threatened
- Southern Screamer Chauna torquata
- Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba coscoroba
- Speckled Teal Anas flavirostris
- White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis
- Silver Teal Anas versicolor
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Great Black-Hawk ? Buteogallus urubitinga
- Southern Caracara Caracara plancus
- Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus
- Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata
- White-backed Stilt Himantopus melanurus
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Collared Plover Charadrius collaris
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Brown-hooded Gull Larus maculipennis
- Rock Dove Columba livia Introduced
- Picazuro Pigeon Patagioenas picazuro
- Spot-winged Pigeon Patagioenas maculosa
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Picui Ground-Dove Columbina picui
- Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus
- Guira Cuckoo Guira guira
- Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
- Scissor-tailed Nightjar ? Hydropsalis torquata
- White-barred Piculet Picumnus cirratus
- White-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes cactorum
- Green-barred Woodpecker Colaptes melanochloros
- Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris
- Bar-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes fuscus
- Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus
- Wren-like Rushbird Phleocryptes melanops
- Chotoy Spinetail Schoeniophylax phryganophila
- Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia
- Lesser Canastero Asthenes pyrrholeuca
- Short-billed Canastero Asthenes baeri
- Freckle-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticollis
- Firewood-gatherer Anumbius annumbi
- Lark-like Brushrunner Coryphistera alaudina
- Brown Cacholote Pseudoseisura lophotes
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- White-tipped Plantcutter Phytotoma rutila
- White-crested Tyrannulet Serpophaga subcristata
- White-bellied Tyrannulet Serpophaga munda
- Greater Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura budytoides
- Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer
- Black-crowned Monjita Xolmis coronata Breeding endemic
- White Monjita Xolmis irupero
- Austral Negrito Lessonia rufa
- Spectacled Tyrant Hymenops perspicillatus
- Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosus
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- White-rumped Swallow ? Tachycineta leucorrhoa
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Sedge Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Chalk-browed Mockingbird Mimus saturninus
- White-banded Mockingbird Mimus triurus
- Creamy-bellied Thrush Turdus amaurochalinus
- Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
- Blue-and-yellow Tanager Thraupis bonariensis
- Many-colored Chaco-Finch Saltatricula multicolor
- Red-crested Finch Coryphospingus cucullatus
- Black-capped Warbling-Finch Poospiza melanoleuca
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
- Great Pampa-Finch Embernagra platensis
- Red-crested Cardinal Paroaria coronata
- Yellow-billed Cardinal ? Paroaria capitata
- Grassland Sparrow Ammodramus humeralis
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Golden-billed Saltator Saltator aurantiirostris
- Yellow-winged Blackbird Agelaius thilius
- Chestnut-capped Blackbird Agelaius ruficapillus
- Bay-winged Cowbird Molothrus badius
- Screaming Cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Epaulet Oriole Icterus cayanensis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus Introduced
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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