Birding

Birding Patagonia, the land of the Magellanic Woodpecker, Andean Condor and Ringed Kingfisher.
Entre Aguas Lodge offers you an exclusive array of Birdwatching programs, spanning the ancient Template Magellanic Forest, grassland, altitude Andean thicket, lakes, ponds, rivers, springs, fjords, and seashore, all of which are home to a luscious Bird diversity. One week in our comfortable and beautiful Lodge will allow you to watch Birds in all their environments and increase your life list records with many Patagonian endemics and specialties like the Magellanic Woodpecker ( Campephilus magellanicus ), Ringed Kingfisher ( Megaceryle torquata ), Andean Condor (Vul tur gryphus ), Chilean Hawk ( Accipiter chilensis ), Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle ( Geranoaetus melanoleucus ), Rufous-tailed Hawk ( Buteo ventralis ), Red-backed Hawk ( Buteo polyosoma ), Aplomado Falcon ( Falco femoralis ), Southern Caracara ( Caracara plancus ), Eared Dove ( Zenaida auriculata ), Austral Parakeet ( Enicognathus ferrugineus ), Great Horned Owl ( Bubo magellanicus ) , White-sided Hillstar ( Oreotrochilus leucopleurus ), Green-backed Firecrown ( Sephanoides sephanoides ), Dark-bellied Cinclodes ( Cinclodes patagonicus ), Black-throated Huet-huet ( Pteroptochos tarnii ), Chucao Tapaculo ( Scelorchilus rubecula ), Bar-winged Cinclodes ( Cinclodes fuscus ), Patagonian Sierra Finch ( Phrygilus patagonicus ), Neotropic Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax brasilianus ), Rock Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax magellanicus ), Imperial Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax atriceps ), Great Egret ( Ardea alba ), White-necked Heron ( Ardea cocoi ), Black-crowned Night-Heron ( Nycticorax nycticorax ), Black-faced Ibis ( Theristicus melanopis ), Black-necked Swan ( Cygnus melancoryphus ), Coscoroba Swan ( Coscoroba coscoroba ), Upland Goose ( Chloephaga picta ), Ashy-headed Goose ( Chloephaga poliocephala ), Ruddy-headed Goose ( Chloephaga rubidiceps ), Flying Steamer Duck ( Tachyeres patachonicus ), Flightless Steamer Duck ( Tachyeres pteneres ), Spectacled Duck ( Anas specularis ), Chimango Caracara ( Milvago chimango ), White-winged Coot ( Fulica leucoptera ), Southern Lapwing ( Vanellus chilensis ), Eared Dove ( Zenaida auriculata ), Striped Woodpecker ( Picoides lignarius ), Chilean Flicker ( Colaptes pitius ), Fire-eyed Diucon ( Xolmis pyrope ), Chilean Swallow ( Tachycineta meyeni ), Southern House Wren ( Troglodytes musculus ), Austral Thrush ( Turdus falklandii ), Rufous-collared Sparrow ( Zonotrichia capensis ), Austral Blackbird ( Curaeus curaeus ), Black-chinned Siskin ( Carduelis barbata ) , Chilean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus chilensis ) and Des Murs's Wiretail ( Sylviorthorhynchus desmursii ), among others.

Our Birding Guide
Rodrigo Tapia was born in 1968 in Valparaiso , a 16th century port city in the middle of a beautiful bay overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the coast of Central Chile . Since he was a child he showed a great interest in Wildlife, and living by the seaside provided him with a unique opportunity to get acquainted first-hand with Seabirds, Shorebirds and Waders. Combining his daily walks to the seashore with weekend trips to inland valleys, forests and the Andes mountains, he started watching and studying Birds before the age of ten, and has been doing so for over 25 years. By the time he finished school his growing passion for Birds eventually led him to study Biology and work as a field researcher. He's been involved in several Ornithological research projects and has carried on field observations in a number of aspects of Ornithology, among them Bird migration, seasonal distribution and abundance of Bird populations, and this research has taken him to almost every region and ecosystem in Chile, from the northern Atacama Desert to the chilling coasts of Antarctica, and from the heights of the Andes to the waters of the Pacific. He has led many Birding trips as a Birding Guide and his passion for Birds is also reflected in his pictures, for he is also an enthusiastic Bird Photographer. Due to the fact that the boundaries of the ranch are the Jaramillo and Vargas rivers, we use drift and motor boats in order to get to the best watching places for waterfowl, marsh and wading birds, and the lodge has new 4X4 pick-ups to travel to other good inland birding locations.