Argentina: The South

Argentina contains a greater variety of habitats than any other South American country. Stretching from the sub-tropical forests around Iguazú Falls to the sub-Antarctic island of Tierra del Fuego, the landscapes are as varied as one could wish, and the birds are similarly diverse. We’ll start in the pampas southeast of Buenos Aires, home to countless waterbirds and raptors, and move south to explore the Valdez peninsula, quintessential Patagonia with dry stony plains covered in xerophytic bushes and dotted with tinamous and rheas, and remote shingle beaches that are refuge for elephant seals and sea lions, and colonies of seabirds. We’ll then visit “the land of fire,” Tierra del Fuego, where we’ll look for Magellanic Woodpecker in magnificent southern beech forests and sail down the Beagle Channel among albatrosses, penguins, and snow-capped peaks, and conclude in Los Glaciares National Park searching the forests and steppes for birds ranging from seedsnipe to sierra-finches, and marveling at the beauty of the Perito Moreno Glacier.