TAFFI DEL VALLE & LIST
ARGENTINA
TUCUMAN (Compass)
00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (1st-2nd August, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
I visited 2 sites near Taffi. Both along Route 309. The first was near a place called Infernillo about 20km North of Taffi. A bus leaves Taffi at 8:30 for Cafayate. Ask to be dropped off at km 80. The highest point of the road is called El Infernillo at km 87. Here there is a small shrubby gulley where I saw Bare-faced Ground-Dove and Andean Tinamou. Tucuman Mountain-Finch can be found here although we only found it 2km further down the road in another bigger bushy gully set back from the road reached by a gravel track. This forks off to the left (heading North) after a small bridge and before a small rocky hill. I saw 30 species including lifers.
Species seen
- Andean Tinamou Nothoprocta pentlandii
- Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
- Andean Goose Chloephaga melanoptera
- Torrent Duck Merganetta armata
- Speckled Teal ? Anas flavirostris
- Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica
- Cinereous Harrier Circus cinereus
- White-tailed Hawk ? Buteo albicaudatus
- Variable Hawk Buteo polyosoma
- Southern Caracara Caracara plancus
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Andean Lapwing Vanellus resplendens
- Rock Dove Columba livia Introduced
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Picui Ground-Dove Columbina picui
- Bare-faced Ground-Dove Metriopelia ceciliae
- Bare-eyed Ground-Dove Metriopelia morenoi Endemic
- Burrowing Parrot Cyanoliseus patagonus
- Gray-hooded Parakeet ? Psilopsiagon aymara
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
- Andean Swift Aeronautes andecolus
- White Woodpecker ? Melanerpes candidus
- Andean Flicker Colaptes rupicola
- Gray-flanked Cinclodes Cinclodes oustaleti
- Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura fuliginiceps
- Scribble-tailed Canastero ? Asthenes maculicauda
- Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea
- Gray-bellied Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis microptera
- Lesser Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis murina Breeding endemic
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Rufous-throated Dipper Cinclus schulzi Vulnerable
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Mountain Wren Troglodytes solstitialis
- Chiguanco Thrush Turdus chiguanco
- Rufous-bellied Thrush Turdus rufiventris
- Brown-capped Redstart Myioborus brunniceps
- Common Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus ophthalmicus
- Band-tailed Sierra-Finch Phrygilus alaudinus
- Rusty-browed Warbling-Finch Poospiza erythrophrys
- Tucuman Mountain-Finch Poospiza baeri Endemic
- Band-tailed Seedeater Catamenia analis
- Yellow-striped Brush-Finch Atlapetes citrinellus Endemic
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Hooded Siskin ? Carduelis magellanica
- 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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