With more than 4.000 Km. (about 2.500 miles) of coast in the South Pacific, Chile has almost every imaginable seaside environment, from sandy and rocky beaches to steep cliffs to intertidal mudflats to pebble shore to dunes to river deltas to sheltered harbours, you name it. The Coastal Avifauna is as diverse as these habitats, and besides the local populations of Birds that are found throughout the year, there are a number of summer migrants which visit our coasts from around September to April, escaping from the Northern winter to feed and rest in our coasts, gathering energy reserves for their return trips to their breeding grounds. The coastal plain in Central Chile is formed mainly by alluvial deposits from the rivers that run westward from the Andes. These rivers have carved many basins giving birth to a number of lakes and ponds as well as marshes and swamps, and as they reach the sea they turn into broad estuaries with many particular habitats from mudflats to dunes to reed-covered banks, habitats which are very productive and exhibit a wide diversity of life forms, with Birds occupying, of course, a very conspicuous place among them. Some of them live in almost all of these habitats, while others inhabit only very restricted environments.

Info about the trip: We´ll visit a breeding colony of Humboldt Penguin as well as a great number of other seabirds, including Peruvian Pelican, Peruvian Booby, Neotropic Cormorant, Guanay Cormorant, Red-legged Cormorant, Kelp Gull, Grey Gull, Inca Tern, Blackish Oystercatcher and the endemic Seaside Cinclodes ("the most maritime of all passerine birds"), to name a few. We´ll also going to see many birds that are related with the coastal environment like Turkey Vulture, Black Vulture, Chimango Caracara, Brown-hooded Gull, Great Shrike-Tyrant, Austral Negrito, Chilean Swallow, Long-tailed Meadowlark and many more. Then we head south to ponds and coastal marshes searching for the beautiful Many-colored Rush-Tyrant and the endemic Dusky Tapaculo as well as many other species like Great Grebe, White-tufted Grebe, Coscoroba Swan, Yellow-billed Teal, Yellow-billed Pintail, Chiloe Wigeon, Lake Duck, Red Shoveler, Red-gartered Coot, Red-fronted Coot, Spot-flanked Gallinule, Plumbeous Rail, Rufous-tailed Plantcutter, Yellow-winged Blackbird and Diuca Finch, among others.

Duration: 8 to 12 hours.