OTAMENDI & LIST
ARGENTINA
OTAMENDI (Compass)
00o00´S/00o00´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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