CHILE DAY 7/8/10/11: BIRDS OF THE PARK

As we had nothing planned for our seventh day, we decided to walk out to the nearby park. There were several species of bird there, a few of which were new. The larger trees in the park were being used as nesting grounds by introduced monk parakeets. Some common diuca-finches were also nesting in the palms nearby. Throughout the park eared doves, Austral blackbirds and Austral thrushes were common. Walking onward produced a single southern lapwing. All of these birds apart from the parakeet proved to be common on our next days in Santiago. On our eighth day we did a city tour, on our eleventh day we went to Valpariso and Vina del Mar and on our tenth day we had another free day, but bird wise it was much of the same.

Eared doves are found through most of South America

The common diuca-finch is a more Chilean bird, it has been introduced to Easter Island

Monk parakeets were introduced to Chile from Argentina