Our arrival at about 10:30 am in Montevideo, Uruguay on Thursday had been delayed by the late departure from Puerto Madryn on Tuesday. We headed straight to the Montevideo Botanical Gardens.
The gardens was a very productive habitat with the thrushes, doves, Rufous Horneo and other birds commonly seen in southern South American urban parks. We saw some harder to see birds including a pair of Grey-necked Wood-Rails that strutted across the lawn.
Because of the late start we ate our lunch in the bus, then went along the coast to some nearby pastures and wetlands including Playa Penino, where we saw Curve-billed Reedhaunter, Freckle-breasted Tyrants, and other small birds hiding in the grasses and bushes, as well as the Giant Wood-Rail.
We saw a lot of birds that day. The total count identified by the group was about 25 more species than mine.
My Bird List:
White-tufted Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
White-faced Ibis
Harris’s Hawk
Southern Caracara
Chimango Caracara
Giant Wood-Rail
Gray-necked Wood-Rail
Red-gartered Coot
American Golden Plover
Southern Lapwing
Black-necked Stilt
Kelp Gull
Common Tern
Snowy-crowned Tern
Sandwich/Cayenne Tern
Royal Tern
Picazuro Pigeon
Eared Dove
White-tipped Dove
Monk Parakeet
Green-barred Woodpecker
Rufous Hornero
Freckle-breasted Thornbird
Small-billed Elainea
White-crested Tyrannulet
Curve-billed Reedhaunter
Cattle Tyrant
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Kingbird
Brown-chested Martin
House Wren
Rufous-bellied Thrush
Creamy-bellied Thrush
Red-crested Cardinal
Long-tailed Reed-Finch
Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finch
Saffron Finch
Great Pampa-Finch
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Tropical Parula
Masked Yellowthroat
Yellow-winged Blackbird
House Sparrow
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