ALTAMIRA
VENEZUELA
region (Barinas), (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (20th September, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
This is a nice road to bird in the morning. I stayed in Barinitas which is a lot nicer than Barinas and much safer. There seems to be only 1 place to stay here, Hotel El Jardin. It's more like a motel and has about 100 rooms. A room cost me 20,000B. Barinitas has a few hot dog stands and an internet cafe. In the morning, a bus leaves the plaza for Altamira on the way up to another town. A good plan is to get off at the junction on the main road and walk down the hill towards Altamira. I saw some good flocks of tanagers and some nice hummingbirds along here. There are many other areas worth exploring in the Santa Domingo valley too. I saw 52 species including 6 lifers.
Species seen
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Gray Hawk Asturina nitida Recorded
- Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris Recorded
- Scaled Dove Columbina squammata
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Brown-throated Parakeet Aratinga pertinax Seen in Barinitas
- Green-rumped Parrotlet Forpus passerinus
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Fork-tailed Palm-Swift Tachornis squamata Seen in Barinitas
- Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus Possibly seen
- Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis
- Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorostilbon notatus Photographed?
- Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus
- Violet-crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii
- Violet-fronted Brilliant Heliodoxa leadbeateri Possibly seen
- Black-mandibled Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus Possibly seen
- Scaled Piculet Picumnus squamulatus
- Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Crimson-crested Woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos Photographed
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris
- Yellow-olive Flycatcher Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer Heard only
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas
- Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis Photographed
- Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes Possibly seen
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira
- Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata
- White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus
- Red-crowned Ant-Tanager Habia rubica
- Silver-beaked Tanager Ramphocelus carbo
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Blue-necked Tanager Tangara cyanicollis
- Gray Seedeater Sporophila intermedia
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola Seen in Barinitas
- Pectoral Sparrow Arremon taciturnus
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Yellow-backed Oriole Icterus chrysater
- Venezuelan Troupial Icterus icterus Seen in Barinitas
- Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus Photographed
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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