John and Mary Kormendy: Antarctica Cruise Pre- and Post-Trip Birding in Argentina (November-December 2022)

These pictures are from part of our Victor Emanuel Nature Tours birding cruise to South Georgia Island and Antarctica. This web site shows pictures of birds that we saw during a 3-day pre-trip in and around Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then a 1-day pre-trip and a 1-day post-trip in and around Ushuaia, Argentina. This web site is barely started with a few iconic birds of the region. It will grow in 2023 as I process and add more pictures. But this will be slow, because we will be traveling for much of the year. Pictures are copyrighted and should not be used without permission.

A travelog of the Antarctica cruise including both bird and scenery pictures is posted here.

During the pre- and post-trips, John and Mary each got 41 life birds, mostly the same species. Including the cruise, John and Mary got 65 and 56 life birds respectively. Species numbers are small at high latitudes, but the numbers of birds can be very large. For example, we saw ~ 200,000 King penguins. Most birds this far south were new to us. All are very special.

Trip Bird

The trip bird for Argentina has to be Magellanic woodpecker, seen near its nest hole in Tierra del Fuego National Park, near Ushuaia.

Argentina Birds

Magellanic woodpecker (This is our life bird.)

Dark-bellied cinclodes (This is our life bird.)

Fire-eyed diucon (new during the Ushuaia pre-trip but photographed after the cruise)

Thorn-tailed rayadito (This is John's life bird.)

Tufted tit-tyrant (not new but always endearing)

Patagonian sierra-finch (new during the Ushuaia pre-trip but photographed after the cruise)

Rufous-collared sparrow is the common sparrow of South America. But it is very spiffy and always worth a photo.

Our bird pictures from around the world follow standard ecozones approximately but not exactly:

Birds from the USA and Canada:   our house,   Hornsby Bend and greater Austin,   Texas,   California,   Hawaii,   Canada,

Neotropic birds from Central America and the Caribbean:   Honduras,   Costa Rica,   Panama,   Trinidad and Tobago

Neotropic birds from South America:   Ecuador,   Ecuador 2017,   Brazil.

Western palearctic birds:   Europe: Germany, Finland, Norway,   Europe: United Kingdom,   Europe: Spain,   the Canary Islands,   Europe: Lesbos, Greece,   Israel

Eastern palearctic birds:   China

Birds from Africa:   The Gambia,   South Africa

Indo-Malayan birds from   India: North-west (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand)   India: North-east (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya)   India: Central (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh)

Birds from   Australia,   New Zealand.

For our 2014 December trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2016 May-June trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2017 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2018 March trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2018 May trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2018 November trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2019 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2019 July trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2021 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2021 December trip to Ecuador, see this web site.

For our 2022 January-February trip to Peru, see this web site.

For our 2022 July/August trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea, see this web site.

For our 2022 September trip to Bolivia, see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December pre-trip to Argentina (before our Antarctic cruise), see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December cruise to Antarctica, see this web site.

For our 2023 January birding in Chile, see this web site.

For our 2023 January-March cruise from Chile to Antarctica and around South America to Miami, FL, see this web site.

For our 2023 March-April birding in south Florida (after the Seabourn cruise), see this web site.

For our 2023 November-December birding to Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, and South India, see this web site.

For John's 2024 February-March birding in Colombia, see this web site.

For our 2024 May-June cruise from Iceland to Jan Mayen Island to and around the Svalbard Archipelago, see this web site.