OTAMENDI & LIST 

ARGENTINA

OTAMENDI (Compass)

00^o00´S/00^o00´W ha topography msl 

Protected/registered status 

Best Time for visit (June, 2005)

Birding Site Guide

Otamendi is easily reached by public transport from Buenos Aires. Take a train towards Juarez and change lines and get off at Otamendi station. Cross the tracks and follow a gravel road along towards a river about 5km away. This road has ditches and some reeds next to it and had Curve-billed Reedhaunter, Wren-like Rushbird, Many-coloured Rush-Tyrant and Scarlet-headed Blackbird just in the first few hundred metres on the left. Further along were some trees on the right next to some water that had Diademed Tanager and Red-rumped Warbling-Finch. Back at the station head the other way and through a passage over a mall hill and a few hundred metres further along to the entrance to the national park. In the park there were 2 trails with a few interesting birds including Stripe-crowned Spinetail, Masked Gnatcatcher and Hepatic Tanager and there was a look out over a lake far away with Black-necked Swans. People have been mugged near the station and caution should be taken not to show any overt signs of wealth. I saw 39 species including 4 lifers. 

Species seen 

• Black-necked Swan Cygnus melanocorypha
• Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
• Cinereous Harrier ? Circus cinereus
• Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
• Southern Caracara Caracara plancus
• Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango
• Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
• White-backed Stilt Himantopus melanurus
• Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
• Picazuro Pigeon Patagioenas picazuro
• Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
• Picui Ground-Dove Columbina picui
• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
• Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus
• Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus
• Wren-like Rushbird Phleocryptes melanops
• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris
• Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia
• Freckle-breasted Thornbird h Phacellodomus striaticollis
• Narrow-billed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes angustirostris
• Sooty Tyrannulet Serpophaga nigricans
• Many-colored Rush-Tyrant Tachuris rubrigastra
• Spectacled Tyrant Hymenops perspicillatus
• Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
• White-rumped Swallow Tachycineta leucorrhoa
• House Wren Troglodytes aedon
• Chalk-browed Mockingbird Mimus saturninus
• Rufous-bellied Thrush Turdus rufiventris
• Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola
• Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca
• Diademed Tanager Stephanophorus diadematus
• Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finch Poospiza nigrorufa
• Red-rumped Warbling-Finch Poospiza lateralis
• Great Pampa-Finch Embernagra platensis
• Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
• Brown-and-yellow Marshbird Pseudoleistes virescens
• Scarlet-headed Blackbird Amblyramphus holosericeus
• Hooded Siskin Carduelis magellanica

Other Fauna 

A total of -- species of mammals. 

There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles. 

Flora 

Author: Charles Hesse

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