waterfowl .Birds in Highland Lagoons, Bolivia. Andean Goose

www.discoveringbolivia.com 14 Days / 13 Nights of Intense Birding with Michael Blendinger Nature Tours in 4WD trough Central and Western Bolivia. Chaco, Valleys, Cloud Forests and Puna. From Santa Cruz to Samaipata, Comarapa, Siberia, Cochabamba, Oruro, Sajama, Sorata, Titicaca, ending in La Paz. The tour can be done the other way around, but bear in mind that going slowly up from the lowlands to the highlands is better in order to avoid possible high altitude sickness. You can adapt this trip to a more relaxed pace, adding to the program one or tree days in the most interesting places of this itinerary. ...Day 8: we'll visit the Machía Park, where besides a "back to wildlife" project for captive parrots and toucans as well as mammals like monkeys and big cats, you may watch Chestnut-fronted Macaw, Blue-headed Parrot, Dusky-headed Parakeet... Day 9: On road to Oruro we may spot Ornate Tinamou, Condor, Puna Hawk, Wedge-tailed Hillstar, Giant Hummingbird, Sparkling Violet-ear, Black-winged Ground-Dove, Andean Flicker, Rufous-banded Miner, Rock Earthcreeper, Tawny Spinetail, Tufted Tit-Tyrant, Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant, Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant, Short-billed Pipit, Band-tailed Seedeater... Day 10: We'll enter the Nat. Park using the road to Sajama town until Tomarapi, probably finding Lesser Rheas, Andean, Ornate and Puna Tinamous; Diademed plover, Brown-capped Tit-spinetail, D´Orbigny´s Chat-tyrant, Rufous-webbed Bush-Tyrant... Day 11: Birding at a sunrise that illuminates the immense snowy volcanoes: the beautiful and conical Sajama (6.550 mts, the highest pick of Bolivia) and the neighboring Pomerata and Parinacota (6.300 mts). We'll spend the day looking for the numerous and diverse fauna of this park: Vicuñas, Pumas, Andean Cat, Andean Fox, Vizcachas, Tuco-tuco Rodents, Hairy Andean Armadillo and the many birds in Huayña Khota Lagoon and on the hillsides of the volcanoes... Day 12: Something to say about breakfast: the low atmospheric pressure does not help to get the scolding coffee of your dreams and needs there, because it boils at only 80°C, so if you want to warm up,.. go to boil an egg in the geysers. We go searching for the best preserved and more colorful chullpas of Bolivia. At the end from the day we'll reach the hot springs of Urmiri... continues...

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