LAGUNA ALATAY, COCHABAMBA CITY
BOLIVIA
COCHABAMBA (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (4th January, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
This large lake within the city of Cochabamba has a few water birds including ducks, grebes and ibis. One side had more reed beds than the other. A taxi here costs just Bs4 from the centre of Cochabamba. I saw 25 species including 2 lifers.
Species seen
- White-tufted Grebe Rollandia rolland
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
- Puna Ibis Plegadis ridgwayi
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica
- White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis
- Andean Duck Oxyura ferruginea
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Slate-colored Coot Fulica ardesiaca Photographed
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Rock Pigeon Columba livia Introduced
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Picui Ground-Dove Columbina picui
- Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus
- Wren-like Rushbird Phleocryptes melanops
- Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
- Creamy-bellied Thrush Turdus amaurochalinus
- Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
- Yellow-winged Blackbird Agelasticus thilius
- Bay-winged Cowbird Molothrus badius
- 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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