Animals and Plants in Chile

Karen and I did a bit of birding and general animal and plant spotting and identification while in Chile.

I had a short list of birds I wanted to see down in Patagonia and mostly saw all of them (never saw ibis), though I wish I could have seen an Andean condor up close.

Caracaras, especially the smaller Chimango variety, were much more plentiful than expected. The Chimangos are present in Puerto Natales like crows are here in Napa.

Birds

• Andean Condor
• Austral Blackbird
• Austral Parakeet
• Austral Thrush
• Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle
• Black-chinned Siskin
• Black-necked Swan
• Brown-hooded Gull
• Chiloe Wigeon
• Chimango Caracara
• Cinereous Harrier
• Coscoroba Swan
• Crested Caracara
• Crested Duck
• Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant
• Imperial Cormorant
• Lesser Rhea
• Long-tailed Meadowlark
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Rufous-collared Sparrow
• Southern Lapwing
• Spectacled Duck
• Striped Woodpecker
• Thorn-tailed Rayadito
• Torrent Duck
• Upland Goose
• White-bellied Seedsnipe
• White-tufted Grebe
• Yellow-billed Teal

Mammals

• Guanaco
• Humans
• Friendly stray dogs in Puerto Natales
• Shy stray cats in Puerto Natales

Plants

• Antarctic Beech
• Chilean Fire Bush
• Diddle-dee
• Lenga Beech
• Magellan Barberry
• Mountain Berry
• Mountain Sweet Cicely
• Purple Foxberry