MIRAMAR & LIST 

ARGENTINA

CORDOBA (Compass)

00^o00´S/00^o00´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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