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Northern Greece Chile’s Best Birding Updated Feb 2016 Featuring the Explora Patagonia Lodge in Torres del Paine Explora Patagonia Lodge and Waterfall © Royal Adventures October 27 - November 7, 2016 Wayne Petersen, Director of the Important Bird Areas program Chile is a beautiful country bordered by the Pacific coast and the magnificent Andes. We will explore the birds and wildlife of the Humboldt Current, the Strait of Magellan, the ancient beech forests, grasslands, the peaks of the highest Andes, and the wilds of Patagonia. The tour ends in Torres del Paine National Park - truly one of the most emblematic national parks on the planet. Here, mountains, glaciers, wetlands, steppes, and forests come together in an astonishingly beautiful landscape that is comprised of diverse habitats and a wonderful array of birds, many of which are restricted exclusively to these latitudes. We will stay at the world- famous Explora Patagonia Lodge within the park. Chile is also home to some fantastic wineries, and our accommodations and meals will be excellent. This is a comfortable birding trip with a focus on seeing a broad cross section of Chile’s birds and landscapes with reasonable logistics and length of tour. 208 South Great Road ▲ Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773 ▲ 800.289.9504 ▲ 781.259.2165 ▲ [email protected] DAY-TO-DAY ITINERARY Thursday, October 27 - Day 1 • USA / CHILE (Overnight flight) Friday, October 28 - Day 2 • Santiago We will arrive in Santiago, Chile in the morning and be greeted at the airport by our local guide. Then, we'll transfer to our comfortable hotel. Please note that flights from the US to Chile leave at night. Since there is only a minimal time change, jet lag is not a problem. After a few hours of rest, we will take a walk to enjoy the beautiful vista of Santiago and the Andes Mountains from Cerro San Cristóbal. We'll then take the funicular to visit La Chascona, one of three charming house museums devoted to Chilean poet-diplomat and Noble Prize Santiago Skyline © Royal Adventures winner, Pablo Neruda. Welcome dinner. Overnight Hotel Torre Mayor in Santiago (D) http://www.hoteltorremayor.cl/en-us/ *Please note that dinners in Chile frequently do not begin until 8 pm. Saturday, October 29 - Day 3 • Santiago / Central Andes / Farellones and Yeso Valley This morning, after breakfast, a full day of birding will be in order. Santiago is Chile’s largest city and the capital of the country. It sits at the base of the Andes at 1500 feet in elevation. It is a large metropolitan area, but there are good birding spots, both in the unique Chilean Matorral habitat (like the shrubland ecoregions of Mediterranean climate zones in southern Europe) and in Andean Mountain passes close to the city. Our local bird guide will be Eduardo Whitaker, who has been birding and guiding in this area his whole life. During the day, we will stop at Yerba Loca Reserve, a stunning mountain valley seldom visited by US tourists, where there are easy trails with breathtaking panoramic views. The habitat is a mix of cypress, pines, and poplar forests surrounded by high mountains and valleys cut by fast-moving rivers. We will explore this spot either on the way up or down from Farellones. A ski resort, Farellones has snow-covered peaks and central-Chilean specialties such as Grey-flanked Cinclodes, Lesser and Cordilleran Canasteros, Mustached Turca, and assorted ground-tyrants and sierra- finches. The unusual Crag Chilia (a species of the ovenbird family) can also be found here, and Andean Condors, Chile’s national bird, are likely to be spotted overhead. After a full day of birding, we will head back to our hotel and a fine dinner. Overnight Hotel Torre Mayor in Santiago (B,L,D) Austral Pygmy Owl © Carol Passera 208 South Great Road ▲ Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773 ▲ 800.289.9504 ▲ 781.259.2165 ▲ [email protected] Sunday, October 30 - Day 4 • Santiago / Valparaíso Today, we will start very early for the coastal area, taking a box breakfast with us. En route, we'll visit some top notch birding sites at the mouth of the Maipo River, the San Antonio-Caragena Lagoon, and more. Target birds here: Black-necked Swan, Stripe-backed Bittern, three species of coots, and maybe even a Black Rail, Chiloe Wigeon, Red Shoveler, Lake Duck, Spot-flanked Gallinule, Grey, Kelp, and Brown-hooded Gulls, South American and Elegant Terns overhead, and Baird’s Sandpiper along the shoreline. Midday, if time allows, we will make a stop at Isla Negra, the location of Pablo Neruda’s wonderful coastal house museum and where he is buried. We will have a chance to see several waterbirds here, including Inca Tern. The house museum also has a nice restaurant, El Rincon del Poeta (The Poet’s Corner), and a good gift and book store. Next, we’ll continue north along the coast to Chile´s number one port, the historic city of Valparaíso. Target birds along the road include the ubiquitous Chimango Caracara, which fills the niche of the crow in Chile, Chilean Swallow, and the endemic Chilean Mockingbird. In the ponds, we should see birds such as the Red-gartered Coot, Chiloe Wigeon, Yellow-billed Pintail, Cinnamon Teal, and Southern Lapwing. After we check into our luxurious hotel, we will have some free time to relax and enjoy the area. Overnight at Hotel Diego de Almagro in Valparaíso.(B,L, D) Monday, October 31 - Day 5 • Valparaíso Our day will start early as we head to port for our half-day pelagic trip through the cold waters of the Humboldt Current. This biologically productive ocean current, whose nutrients are further enriched by upwellings from the ocean floor along the entire Chilean coast, is considered one of the world’s best pelagic birding locations. It is also frequented by many marine mammals. We will expect to see a great array of tubenoses such as Black-browed, Grey-headed, and Wandering Albatrosses. We should also find Southern Giant-Petrel, White-chinned Petrel, Pink-footed and Sooty Shearwaters, Cape Petrel, Juan Fernández Petrel, Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, and Peruvian Diving-Petrel. Other seabirds we may encounter include Red and Red-necked Phalaropes, Humboldt Penguin, Inca Tern,and Chilean and South Polar Skuas. We will have lunch near the docks, then head up the coast for more birding along a lake (near a copper refinery). Dinner and overnight at Hotel Diego de Almagro in Valparaíso (B,L, D) Tuesday, November 1 - Day 6 • Valparaíso / Santiago After breakfast, we will bid farewell to Valparaiso and head northeast towards La Campana National Park in the coastal mountains. We'll explore the Ocoa Valley and one of the last forests of Chilean Wine Palm (Jubaea chilensis). Two Chilean Torres del Paine Horns and Lake © Royal Adventures 208 South Great Road ▲ Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773 ▲ 800.289.9504 ▲ 781.259.2165 ▲ [email protected] endemics can be found here: the noisy White-throated Tapaculo and Dusky-tailed Canastero. There is also a good chance of seeing the remarkable Giant Hummingbird. We will continue our birding near San Felipe – Rinconada de Los Andes where we'll have lunch at a very typical Chilean restaurant. We return to Santiago through Cuesta de Chacabuco for more birding before a free evening in Santiago. Dinner on your own. Overnight at Overnight Hotel Torre Mayor in Santiago (B,L) Wednesday, November 2 - Day 7 • Santiago / Maipo and Yeso Valley Today, we will depart Santiago very early to beat the traffic and head to Maipo Valley to spend much of the day exploring this scenic area known for its wine vineyards. The gorgeous mountain valley of the From the Explora website: http://www.explora.com/hotels-and- Yeso River, high up and near the border with Argentina is a spot to travesias/patagonia-chile/hotel-and-services/ try and find Diademed Sandpiper Plover. We will also look for Rufous-banded Miner, Cordilleran Canastero, Chilean Mockingbird, Austral Thrush, Austral Blackbird, and Common Diuca-Finch. Picnic lunch in the field, returning to Santiago for dinner and overnight at Overnight Hotel Torre Mayor in Santiago (B, Box lunch, D) Thursday, November 3 - Day 8 • Santiago to Torres Del Paine Today is a travel day as we'll depart early from Santiago on a regularly scheduled commercial flight south to Punta Arenas. Upon arrival, we'll transfer to Puerto Natales and on to world-famous Explora Patagonia lodge in the heart of Torres del Paine National Park. Overnight 3 nights here, on the shores of Lake Pehoe, breathtaking views of the Paine ridge and the granite towers. With simple luxury, the lodge and rooms take full advantage of the silence, privacy, and spaciousness of the surrounding landscape. Overnight at Explora Patagonia lodge (B,L,D) Friday, November 4 & Saturday, November 5 – Days 9 & 10 • Torres del Paine National Park Torres del Paine National Park is truly one of the most emblematic national parks on the planet. Here, mountains, glaciers, wetlands, steppes, and forests come together in an astonishingly beautiful landscape that is comprised of diverse habitats and a wonderful array of birds, many of which are restricted exclusively to these latitudes. Birding in the Southern Beech (Nothofagus) forest, we will look for Magellanic Woodpecker and the Austral Parakeet. In the steppes, Ashy-headed Goose, Patagonian and Black-hooded Sierra-Finches, Bar- winged Cinclodes, Scaly-throated Earthcreeper, and Patagonian Mockingbird can be found. Wetlands here are home to the remarkable Andean Ruddy Duck, Red Shoveler, the beautiful Great Grebe, and White-tufted Grebe, while above us we may see a soaring Andean Guanaco and Towers of Torres del Paine © Royal Adventures 208 South Great Road ▲ Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773 ▲ 800.289.9504 ▲ 781.259.2165 ▲ [email protected] Condor or Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle.
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