HAMBURGO & LIST
BOLIVIA
BENI, (near RIBERALTA) (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (21st & 23rd December, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
Hamburgo is easily reached from Riberalta by bike-taxi (about Bs5). Riberalta has many places to stay and eat. On the bike-taxi, you will pass lots of brick building places and finally reach the river where a boat takes people accross. Pale-legged Hornero was seen near here. Get off here and walk back along towards Riberalta. After about 200m you'll see a diagonal path leading off to the right. Follow this along and explore the trails. You cross a small stream and then get to a 3-way junction of trails. The right hand trail lead through some secondary forest with Chestnut Woodpecker and Lettered Aracari and ends in a small house. At the 3 way junction, go straight, bear left at the next junction, go over a broken bridge and along to the end. From here was flooded when I was there but taking a small trail into the forest on the left (a short distance after the bridge) and exploring a bit, I heard and then saw a Masked Antpitta singing 7-8m up in the trees. Just before dusk is best for singing but I heard it calling at midday when it was overcast. The call can be heard at the following link. http://www.birdsongs.com/Bolivia/snds_eng.htm Look out for Band-tailed Nighthawks on the way back when it's getting dark. Bikes are usually easy to flag down on the way back. I saw 66 species including 14 lifers.
Species seen
- Cinereous Tinamou Crypturellus cinereus Heard
- Undulated Tinamou Crypturellus undulatus Heard
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Possibly seen
- Rufescent Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma lineatum
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus
- Slate-colored Hawk Leucopternis schistaceus Photographed
- Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis
- Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Starred Wood-Quail Odontophorus stellatus Heard
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana
- Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Gray-fronted Dove Leptotila rufaxilla
- Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severa Heard
- Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii
- Tui Parakeet Brotogeris sanctithomae Photographed
- Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Greater Ani Crotophaga major
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Band-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne leucopyga Possibly seen
- Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus
- Sapphire-spangled Emerald Polyerata lactea
- Ringed Kingfisher Ceryle torquatus
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda
- Chestnut-capped Puffbird Bucco macrodactylus
- Black-fronted Nunbird Monasa nigrifrons
- Lettered Aracari Pteroglossus inscriptus
- Yellow-tufted Woodpecker Melanerpes cruentatus Photographed
- Chestnut Woodpecker Celeus elegans Photographed
- Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus Possibly seen
- Pale-legged Hornero Furnarius leucopus
- Plain-crowned Spinetail Synallaxis gujanensis
- Straight-billed Woodcreeper Dendroplex picus Possibly seen
- Great Antshrike Taraba major Heard
- Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator Possibly seen
- Masked Antpitta Hylopezus auricularis Endemic Vulnerable
- Dull-capped Attila Attila bolivianus
- Rufous Casiornis Casiornis rufa Possibly seen
- Lesser Kiskadee Philohydor lictor
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua Heard
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis Possibly seen
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Brown-chested Martin Progne tapera Possibly seen
- Black-capped Donacobius Donacobius atricapilla
- Thrush-like Wren Campylorhynchus turdinus
- Fawn-breasted Wren Thryothorus guarayanus Possibly seen
- Hauxwell's Thrush Turdus hauxwelli
- White-necked Thrush Turdus albicollis Possibly seen
- White-shouldered Tanager Tachyphonus luctuosus
- Silver-beaked Tanager Ramphocelus carbo
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana Photographed
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina Photographed
- Lined Seedeater Sporophila lineola
- White-bellied Seedeater Sporophila leucoptera
- Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch Oryzoborus angolensis Possibly seen
- Red-capped Cardinal Paroaria gularis
- Yellow-browed Sparrow Ammodramus aurifrons
- Grayish Saltator Saltator coerulescens
- Solitary Cacique Cacicus solitarius
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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