Sunrise Birding LLC - Central Chile & Easter Island Trip Report - Jan 2019

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CENTRAL CHILE
& EASTER ISLAND
January 2019

Trip Report & Species List (pdf, 7 mb)>

Highlights and top sightings:

• Diademed Sandpiper-Plover
•Ticking Doradito
•Inca Tern
•Northern Royal Albatross
•Black-headed Duck
•Crag Chilia
•Rufous-tailed Hawk
•Burrowing Parrot
•Torrent Duck
•Des Mur’s Wiretail
•Magellanic Tapaculo
•Southern Royal Albatross
•Fuegian Steamer Duck
•Dolphin Gull
•Northern Giant Petrel
•Plumbeous Rail
•Franklin’s Gull
•Chestnut-throated Huet-huet
•Rufous-tailed Plantcutter
•Austral Pygmy-Owl
•Giant Hummingbird
•Salvin’s Albatross
•Black-browed Albatross
•White-sided Hillstar
•Spectacled Duck
•White-throated Hawk
•Flying Steamer Duck
•Coscoroba Swan
•Hudsonian Godwit
•Volcanoes
•Pisco Sours
•Magellanic Woodpecker
•Moustached Turca
•Chacao Tapaculo
•Peruvian Booby
•Great Shrike-Tyrant
•Westland Petrel
•Andean Condor
•Magellanic Horned Owl
•Rosy-billed Pochard
•Pincoya Storm Petrel
•Black-necked Swan
•Magellanic Penguin
•Ochre-flanked Tapaculo
•Southern Giant Petrel
•Red-legged Cormorant
•Rock Shag
•Araucaria Forest
•Pelagics
•Conguillio NP
•Humboldt Penguin

EASTER ISLAND
•Moai
•History & Archaeology
•Phoenix Petrel
•Christmas Shearwater
•White-tailed Tropicbird
•Gray Noddy
•Herald Petrel
•Kermadec Petrel

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Inca Tern. Photo by Steve Bird.
Inca Tern. Photo by Steve Bird.

Salvin's Albatross. Photo by Steve Bird.
Salvin's Albatross. Photo by Steve Bird.

Gray Noddy photo by Steve Bird.
Gray Noddy photo by Steve Bird.

Diademed Sandpiper-Plover by Gina Nichol.

Burrowing Parrot. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Inca Tern. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Magellanic Woodpecker, male. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Magellanic Woodpecker, female. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Group at Conguillio National Park. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Group at El Yeso. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Magellanic (Lesser) Horned Owl. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Magellanic Penguins. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Mountain Caracara. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Moustached Turca. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Magellanic Penguins. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Photographing Albatross. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Celebrating a successful Pelagic, the Chilean way! Photo © Gina Nichol.
Celebrating a successful Pelagic, the Chilean way! Photo © Gina Nichol.

Plumbeous Rail. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Sailing In Relonvcavi Sound, looking for Pincoya Storm Petrel. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Southern Sea Lions. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Volcano at Conguillio National Park. Photo © Gina Nichol.

EASTER ISLAND PHOTOS

Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol.

Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Ahu Nao-Nao at Anakena on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Ahu Nao-Nao at Anakena on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Ahu Nao-Nao at Anakena on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Ahu Nao-Nao at Anakena on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Chimango Caracara on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Rapa Nui Coast in front of our hotel. Photo © Gina Nichol

Hanga Roa harbor, Rapa Nui. Photo © Gina Nichol

Rano Kau, an extinct volcano in southwestern Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Rano Raraku, the quarry on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol
Rano Raraku, the quarry on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Rano Raraku, the quarry on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol
Rano Raraku, the quarry on Easter Island. Photo © Gina Nichol

Te Pito Kura, the Navel of the world. Photo © Gina Nichol
Te Pito Kura, the Navel of the world. Photo © Gina Nichol

Rapa Nui Sunset. Photo by Gina Nichol.