PORVENIR & LIST
CHILE
TIERRA DEL FUEGO (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (17-19th April, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
Porvenir is reached by a 2 and a half hour ferry (4000 pesos 1-way) accross the Magellan Straight. It leaves daily except Mondays at 9am (9:30 on Sundays) from the Tres Puente terminal north of town, reached by colectivo numbers 14, 15, 20 and 21 (250 pesos) from the town centre. From the ferry we saw a few Magellanic Penguins and a Magellanic Diving-Petrel aswell as Black-browed Albatross and a few other sea birds. From Porvenir we walked 5km towards the airport and birded the southern edge of the huge Lago de los Cisnes walking back along a different road to town. The lake was good for Chilean Flamingos, Coscoroba Swans and a pair of Spectacled Ducks were flushed from a small pond close to the airport. I saw 42 species.
Species seen
- Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus NT
- Silvery Grebe Podiceps occipitalis
- Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris
- Antarctic Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus Vulnerable
- Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides
- Magellanic Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides magellani
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Rock Shag Phalacrocorax magellanicus
- Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis NT
- Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba coscoroba
- Upland Goose Chloephaga picta
- Kelp Goose Chloephaga hybrida
- Ashy-headed Goose Chloephaga poliocephala
- Flying Steamerduck Tachyeres patachonicus
- Speckled Teal Anas flavirostris
- Spectacled Duck Anas specularis NT
- Crested Duck Anas specularioides
- Red Shoveler Anas platalea
- Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Two-banded Plover Charadrius falklandicus
- Rufous-chested Dotterel Charadrius modestus
- South American Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
- Chilean Skua Stercorarius chilensis
- Dolphin Gull Larus scoresbii
- Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
- Brown-hooded Gull Larus maculipennis
- Short-billed Miner Geositta antarctica
- Bar-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes fuscus
- Fire-eyed Diucon ? Xolmis pyrope
- White-browed Ground-Tyrant Muscisaxicola albilora
- Austral Negrito Lessonia rufa
- House Wren ? Troglodytes aedon
- Austral Thrush Turdus falcklandii
- Gray-hooded Sierra-Finch Phrygilus gayi
- Patagonian Yellow-Finch Sicalis lebruni
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Long-tailed Meadowlark Sturnella loyca
- Black-chinned Siskin ? Carduelis barbata
- 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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