Birds of the Iberá Marshlands
Argentina
Region
Ibera Marshlands
Season
All year around
Duration
4 to 5 days
Briefing
Day 1: Flight to Posadas. Drive to Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, stopping in route for birding in the grasslands and wetlands.
Day 2: Navigation into the Iberá Marshlands. In the afternoon explore the forests and palm groves near the Iberá Lake.
Day 3: Explore the “ñandubay” woods, palm groves and marshlands.
Day 4: During the morning we will bird-watch in the Marshlands. Transfer to Posadas to continue your trip to Iguassu or to your next Destination.
Tour description
The Iberá Marshlands are Argentina’s main subtropical wetland and a region that hosts an extraordinary diversity of birdlife in varied habitats such as marshes, native woods, savannahs, grasslands and palm groves. This expedition we will take you to the southern part of the Iberá basin, where we will stay in a lodge near the village of Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, exploring a wide variety of wildlife-rich areas.
The wetlands are the habitat of rufescent tiger-herons, Brazilian ducks, anhingas, ringed and Amazon kingfishers, roseate spoonbills, black-collared hawks, scarlet-headed blackbirds, jabiru storks, white-headed marsh-tyrants, capped seedeaters and the rare and local marsh seedeater, and southern screamers, among many ... In the grasslands we will find the greater rhea, the strange-tailed tyrant and the saffron-cowled blackbird both endangered species, together with the yellow-rumped marshbird, the red-winged tinamou and various rare species of seedeaters.
We will also visit the palm groves and stands of nandubay woods, where we will see white and golden-breasted woodpeckers, greater rheas, savannah hawks, red-crested cardinals, tropical screech-owls, chicli spinetails, scimitar-billed and olivaceous woodcreepers, small-billed elaenias, golden-rumped euphonias, blue-and-yellow tanager, striped cuckoos and the endangered yellow cardinal, among many other species.