Southern Patagonia: Los Glaciares National Park, Austral Rail and Hooded Grebe

This tour combines some of the most diverse birding areas of the Southern Cone in Argentina: Los Glaciares National Park and the vast steppes of southern Patagonia. The region hosts a wide diversity of habitats, such as massive glaciers that flow from the vast Southern Patagonian Ice Field, thick deciduous and evergreen forests, vast steppes, rivers, snow-capped peaks, wetlands, and mountain grasslands, all home to a wide diversity of birds. Some of the birds we’ll be looking for include Magellanic Woodpecker (the largest woodpecker in South America), the rare Austral Rail, the Critically Endangered Hooded Grebe at Strobel Plateau, and the healthiest population of Andean Condors on the continent.

Andean Condor (photo Alejandro Ronchetti) is one of our targets on this southern Patagonia tour.

This tour can be combined with one or both of our preceding Argentina birding tours: Argentina – Northwest from the foothills to Puna followed by our Northeast – Iberá Marshland and Iguazú National Park.

The massive Magellanic Woodpecker can be seen on this tour.