Birding in South America

As one can surely gather from all the photos and stories of our trip, South America has been a birding bonanza - a paradise for twitchers like myself. When I arrived here 6 months ago, I was hoping to see at least 150 new species. To my delight, I have seen 286. Here for my record is a list of the new birds I have seen.

Argentina (86 new species)

• Buff-necked Ibis
• Ashy-headed goose
• Roadside hawk
• Rufescent Tiger Heron
• Snowy egret
• White-faced Ibis
• Coscoraba
• Silver teal
• South American Stilt
• Wattled Jacana
• Greater yellowlegs
• Picazuro pegeon
• Eared dove
• Monk Parakeet
• Tropical Kingbird
• Fork-tailed Flycatcher
• Brown-chested Martin
• Red-crested Cardinal
• Black and rufous Warbling Finch
• White tufted grebe
• Chilean flamingo
• Brown pintail
• Red shoveler
• Ruddy Duck
• Cinereous harrier
• Red-gartered Coot
• Hellmayr's Pipit
• Olivaceous cormorant
• White-necked Heron
• Maguari Stork
• Southern Screamer
• Brazilian Duck
• Snail kite
• Rufous-sided crake
• Giant Wood-Rail
• Limpkin
• Yellow-billed tern
• Spot-winged pigeon
• Picui Ground Dove
• Smooth-billed Ani
• Guira cuckoo
• Band-winged Nightjar
• Green-barred Woodpecker
• Field Flcker
• Narrow-billed woodcreeper
• Yellow-chinned Spinetail
• Sooty Tyrannulet
• Pied water tyrant
• White headed Marsh-Tyrant
• Cattle Tyrant
• Brown-crested Flycatcher
• Masked gnatcatcher
• Tropical Parula
• Greenwinged Saltator
• Yellow-billed Cardinal
• Redcrested finch
• Rusty-collared seedeater
• Great Pampa-Finch
• Shiny cowbird
• Bay-winged cowbird
• Golden-winged cacique
• Unicoloured Blackbird
• Epaulet Oriole
• Troupial
• Scarlet-headed Blackbird
• Great grebe
• Southern Martin
• Lessrer Rhea
• Giant Petrel
• Red-backed hawk
• Magellanic Oystercatcher
• Blackish Oystercatcher
• Dolphin gull
• Chalk-browed Mockingbird
• Elegant crested Tinamou
• Burrowing owl
• Streamer-tailed Tyrant
• Austral thrush
• Magellanic Penguin
• Austral Negrito
• Fulvous tree duck
• Speckled teal
• Azure Gallinule
• Southern lapwing
• Solitary sandpiper
• Band-tailed seedeater

Chile (24 new species)

• Black browed albatross
• Kelp Goose
• King cormorant
• Pied billed Grebe
• White-Winged Coot
• Chilean swallow
• Black-necked swan
• Crested duck
• Flightless steamer duck
• Southern wigeon
• South American tern
• Upland Goose
• Andean Condor
• Crested Caracara
• Common snipe
• Green-cheeked Parakeet
• Chequered Woodpecker
• White-throated Treerunner
• Black-throated Huet Huet
• Black billed shrike-tyrant
• House wren
• Grey-hooded Sierra Finch
• Brown-hooded gull
• Northern Waterthrush

Bolivia (9 new species)

• Black Skimmer
• Blue and Yellow Macaw
• Blue-crowned Parakeet
• Hoatzin
• Cuviers Toucan
• Razor-billed Curassow
• American kestrel
• Mountain caracara
• Red-backed sierra finch

Brazil (23 new species)

• Greater Rhea
• Red-Legged Seriema
• Red and Green Macaw
• Peach-fronted Parakeet
• Black-throated Mango
• Bare-faced Ibis
• Jabiru
• Turkey vulture
• Black-collared Hawk
• Solitary Eagle
• Chaco chachalaca
• Common Piping-Guan
• Bare-faced curassow
• Hyacinth Macaw
• Black-hooded Parakeet
• Reddish-bellied Parakeet
• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
• Ringed Kingfisher
• Green Kingfisher
• Rufous-tailed Jacamar
• Black and white Monjita
• Bananaquit
• Puna Yellowfinch

Peru (16 new species)

• Blue-crowned Trogan
• saffron crowned tanager
• Inca tern
• guanay cormorant
• banded gull
• Humboldt penguin
• Andean gull
• Peruvian pelican
• Neotropical cormorant
• Red-legged cormorant
• Peruvian booby
• White-winged dove
• Andean Hillstar
• Great thrush
• Torrent duck

Ecuador (129 new species)

• chimborazo hillstar
• sun grebe
• magpie tanager
• violaceousjay
• screaming piha
• many banded aracari
• masked crimson tanager
• blackheaded parrot
• russetbacked oropendola
• black hawk eagle
• white banded swallow
• Greater ani
• Blue footed booby
• yellow warbler
• Great blue heron
• Magnificent frigatebird
• White vented storm petrel
• Audubon's shearwater
• Great Frigatebird
• Swallow-tailed gull
• Lava gull
• Small ground finch
• Noddy tern
• Galapagos hawk
• Galapagos mockingbird
• Hood mockingbird
• Redbilled tropic bird
• Yellow-crowned night heron
• Waved albatross
• Masked booby
• Lava heron
• Warbler finch
• Medium ground finch
• Large ground finch
• Small tree finch
• Red footed booby
• Large cactus finch
• Galapagos dove
• Wandering tattler
• Booted racket-tail
• white-necked jacobin
• Purple-throated woodstar
• Green-crowned woodnymph
• Black-throated brilliant
• Rufous-tailed hummingbird
• Brown violetear
• Green thorntail
• Blue-grey tanager
• blue and white swallow
• Palm tanager
• Tricoloured brush-finch
• Variable seed eater
• Blackwinged saltator
• Dusky bush-tanager
• Lemon-rumped tanager
• Flame-faced tanager
• Golden tanager
• Orange-bellied euphonia
• White-capped dipper
• Mountain wren
• Southern roughwinged swallow
• Masked tityra
• Dusky-capped flycatcher
• Black phoebe
• Scale-crested pygmy tyrant
• Ornate flycatcher
• Bay wren
• Strongbilled woodcreeper
• Smoky-brown woodpecker
• Scarletbacked woodpecker
• Guayaquil woodpecker
• Golden-headed quetzal
• Chestnut-mandibled toucan
• Crimson-rumped toucanet
• Masked trogon
• White-whiskered hermit
• Ruddy pigeon
• Whitetipped dove
• Swallow-tailed kite
• Velvet purple coronet
• Plate billed mountain toucan
• Yellow-breasted antpitta
• Great antpitta
• Andean cock of the rock
• Fawn breasted brilliant
• Violet-tailed sylph
• White-bellied woodstar
• Buff-tailed coronet
• Sparkling violetear
• Purple-bibbed white tip
• Toucan barbet
• Pale mandibled aracri
• Slate throated whitestart
• cinnamon becard
• Club-winged manakin
• Three-striped warbler
• Wedge-billed woodcreeper
• Spotted woodcreeper
• Golden-winged manakin
• Bronze-winged parrot
• Rusty-margined flycatcher
• Spotted barbtail (woodcreeper)
• Scarlet-backed woodpecker
• yellow-billed elaenia
• Red-faced spinetail
• Yellow-bellied seedeater
• Torrent tyrannulet
• Black-cheeked woodpecker
• Social flycatcher
• Common tody-flycatcher
• Sickle-winged guan
• Yellow-throated bush tanager
• Powerful woodpecker
• Golden olive woodpecker
• Buff-fronted foliage gleaner
• Grey rumped swift
• Lineated foliage-gleaner
• Laughing falcon
• Masked water tyrant
• Vermillion flycatcher
• Yellow-tailed oriole
• Yellow-rumped cacique
• Bat falcon
• Croaking ground dove
• Black-capped sparrow
• Blue-crowned motmot
• Long-tailed mockingbird
• Collared plover
• Galapagos flycatcher