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Steve Howell on his and Jake Mohlmann's ongoing tour, Chile: Tierra del Fuego to the Atacama Desert



November 14: Steve Howell on his and Jake Mohlmann's ongoing tour, Chile: Tierra del Fuego to the Atacama Desert

From King Penguins and Royal Albatrosses to Magellanic Woodpeckers and Many-colored Rush-Tyrants, we’ve enjoyed a wonderful trip in Southern and Central Chile. Carpets of wildflowers and choruses of birdsong have marked our days here in Central Chile, interspersed with a fabulous pelagic trip into the Humboldt Current, surrounded by record numbers of albatrosses and petrels. Here are a few images to date:

Our picnic lunch in the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, after seeing the enigmatic Magellanic Plover, and...

 

... before heading on to view King Penguins at the recently founded colony on Useless Bay.

 

Within minutes of leaving our rooms the iconic Magellanic Woodpecker appeared wonderfully, right beside the road!

 

This year, the very local (and recently split) Ticking Doradito showed very well.

 

A handsome Chilean Skua passed right overhead in the Humboldt Current, ...

 

And we enjoyed repeated studies of five albatross species, included this stunning Southern Buller’s.

 

Yesterday an Andean Condor perched on a ski lodge greeted us in the Andes, before sailing off right over our heads—wow!

 

And today we found the incomparable Diademed Sandpiper-Plover in record time—less than a minute, with this image taken from the van window! Now on to the finale in Northern Chile.

Posted: November 14, 2017