#tufted tit-tyrant

[auntie-birdie]

Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)

© Mason Maron

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Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus) © Nicolas Olejnik

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[rolitae]

I asked, you answered! Still one more to go.

[genericpuff]

Oh boy, I am from Chile and it took me a while to choose what to talk about, so i'm gonna do an autism and share some birds i like

This is a rufous-collared sparrow, they are really small and round, they hang with house sparrows, but in my own experience they are much smarter. The ones in my college campus know how to get in and out of buildings

This is a Fire-eyed Diucon, some people think they're evil because of the red eyes. I was able to handle one (had to get it out of my house and away from the cats), and they're really soft! And totally not evil!

And this is a tufted tit-tyrant, they are really really tiny and they always look angry, i also see them at my college campus.

I don't want to spam with too many bird photos so i'll stop there :'>>>

BIRRRRDDDSSS

sorry i'm doing that old people thing where you hit a certain age and suddenly birds are just. the coolest thing ever. look at them birds. goddamn. the tufted tit-tyrant is a mood fr fr LOL also the fire-eyed diucon def looks super soft 🥺❤️ thank you for sharing your bird photos, i do NOT mind bird spam at all, i am literally a bird in spirit LOL

[anonsally]

Day 2 in Chile: Birding along the central coast

After a decent night's sleep, we got up early this morning for our birding tour. The guide and a driver picked us up at 8am and we had an epic day of birding! It was cold but mostly sunny, so not as cold as yesterday except when it was very windy. The guide told us that this is one of the best times of year to visit Chile, bird-wise, because a lot of birds that breed further south migrate here in the winter... as do a lot of birds who breed further north!

We did spend a lot of the day in the car in between birding, but that was fine actually as it gave Wife (who is an introvert) a break from interacting and it also meant less time in the sun and wind. And we saw lots of birds, nearly all of which were new for me.

The guide hasn't shared the eBird list with me yet so I'm sure I won't remember everything, but here's what I remember (not chronologically, and I've tried to put my favorites near the top, but not really in order and they were all exciting in one way or another):

Humboldt penguins! We were pretty lucky; I think there were about 30 of them hanging out on a small island preserve very close to the beach.

Inca terns. These were very beautiful and unusual-looking terns, dark grey with long white whiskers and red beaks, with a yellow spot at the base, and red feet.

Grey gulls starting to get their breeding plumage. I thought these were very cute, elegant gulls.

A giant hummingbird. Which... is not an exaggeration. It was enormous. Too big to hover. But clearly hummingbird shaped. Totally incongruous!

Tufted tit-tyrant. (The Tufted Tit-Tyrants is my new band.) Probably one of the cutest birds I've ever seen.

Peruvian boobies

Peruvian pelicans--not too different from the brown pelicans we see at home, but larger.

Three kinds of cormorant: Most were neotropic cormorants, but we also saw a couple of guanay cormorants, and several of the very beautiful red-legged cormorant.

Southern lapwings. Kind of a patchwork pattern of coloration.

Two rufous-chested dotterels, one of which was getting its breeding plumage.

Three kinds of cinclodes: gray-flanked (which breed in the Andes but winter on rocky beaches), seaside (larger), and (I think?) buff-winged.

Two kinds of oystercatchers: blackish and American (I don't think I'd seen the American kind before; the ones in California are black oystercatchers).

Yellow-billed pintails

Yellow-billed teals

Diuca finches

Lake duck (similar to a ruddy duck)

Rufous-collared sparrows (apparently more common than house sparrows in Chile, and infinitely cuter!)

Coscoroba swans, which looked less mean and more friendly than our usual swans

red-gartered coots

Great shrike-tyrants

Long-tailed meadowlark. Startlingly red face and front.

Chimango caracaras, which were the raptors I'd seen on the way from the airport. Apparently there are no corvids here, but these fill that ecological niche. We saw two of them eating a dead meadowlark.

Dusky tapaculo. The guide made limited use of playback in the one foresty stop. This bird is very shy but we did manage to get a decent view of it.

Variable hawk.

Harris's hawk

Great grebes

White-tufted grebes

Brown-hooded gulls

Chilean mockingbirds

Two kinds of swallows: blue-and-white and Chilean

Chiloe wigeons

black vultures

a rufous-tailed plantcutter

Austral thrushes

Austral blackbirds

We also saw sea lions and a couple of otters!

We had them drop us off at a restaurant in Viña Del Mar, which saved them some driving and meant we could try a restaurant we were interested in. We drank Pisco sours (a great cocktail!) and--as usual--ordered too much food. Then we managed to get a bus back to Valparaíso and had a steep walk back up to the hotel, as the funiculars don't run late.

[mutant-distraction]

Javier Zurita Wildlife Photography

Tufted tit Tyrant, photo taken in

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[beloved-menagerie]

sorry for being lewd with the wrong sort of ornithology I GUESS?

-- Juan

pecking at who's tits till he draws blood? can't uhh say i'd mind

-- Juan

[myflyingfriends]

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[dsandrvk]

Wednesday, December 14 - Puerto Vara's, Chile

I didn't get to post yesterday when we arrived in Chile, as today was our first full day here. Getting here was a bit arduous, with a 19 hour flight delay (out of Moab). We had planned an overnight on our itinerary, since we couldn't fly from Denver until the next day, due to the timing of the one flight a day from Moab. But the delay ended that, so we flew straight through on four flights in over 24 hours to get here to Puerto Montt, and got our rental car and drove up to Puerto Varas.

Our flying weather was good, just ahead of the storms, and it was good weather here on Tuesday, but today was forecast to be all day off and on again rain. We slept in long enough for the early morning shower to pass, and were lucky enough to have clouds, a little sun, and no more rain as soon as we headed out to explore. Puerto Varas is on the southwestern corner of the large lake, Lago Llanquehue, and the area has many volcanoes. The one that looks over the lake here from the east is Osorno, which is 2652 meters, and still vents a bit. There is a ski area on the southwest side of the mountain, with the base at about 3800 feet. We drove up there towards the end of the day, and it's strange to have a ski area beginning at a lower altitude than Moab.

Most of the area to the east of the lake, including Osorno, is in a national park, and we started the day at Laguna Verde, which is a sort of brackish pond near the edge of the lake. Even with the still dripping trees there was lots of bird life - all new ones for us, like the "tufted tit-tyrant" (say that three times fast). There was a little park ranger building there, and inadequate parking for the large tour busses that were arriving just as we left.

From there we drove up along the east side of the lake to a gravel road that headed towards La Cascada, a large waterfall. There is a well maintained trail to the falls, as it is also a municipal water supply for the town of Las Cascadas. Once again, bird life was plentiful, and there were lots of flowers - I need to remember that it's early summer here, with lots of foxgloves and fushias in full bloom. The waterfall is quite spectacular, and since some of the schools are on a break right now, there was a busload of teenagers taking a dip by the base of the falls. Most didn't stay long in the water, since it was cold and the wind from the falls was powerful.

From there we did the drive up the mountain to the ski area, and occasionally the clouds broke up enough to see most of the volcano. The views down to the lake were spectacular, but hard to photograph because of the sun angle. The road up the mountain is fringed with lupines of all colors imaginable. They must love the volcanic soil.

We headed back to our little rental house in what seemed like mid afternoon, but was actually around 7:30. The sun doesn't set here this time of year until after 9, so it's always later than we think. Along the road back were several pullouts for photos back to Osorno, which by this point had some interesting lenticular clouds mimicking the actual top of the peak. While we were looking, this juvenile caracara flew down and behaved just like a raven, strutting around and scavenging some crackers left by previous visitors. Not at all afraid, and quite used to finding food left behind.

Tomorrow is supposed to clear off and be mostly sunny - we are hoping the forecast is correct, as we want to explore a few more trails and waterfalls.

[a-smokin-ghost]

HEY DID U KNOW THAT THERES BIRDS CALLED:

GREAT TIT

BOOBY

BLUE TIT

and my favourite, the TUFTED TIT TYRANT

Garcello blinks before putting up a thumbs up, "Oh, that's pretty cool."

[ohlookachicken]

Had to stop and make sure I knew ten birds...I’m good, not because I’m knowledgeable about birds but because I have the sense of humor of a ten year old (see: Red Rumped Bush Tyrant, Blue Footed Booby, European Shag, Rough Faced Shag, Tufted Titmouse, Long-Tailed Bushtit, Fluffy Backed Tit Babbler, Penduline Tit, Swallow, and of course the American Woodcock - that bird from the “Heaven Let Your Peent Shine Down” gif).

sam and brennan’s greatest weaknesses (respectively)

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Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)

© Carlos Pauro

[dissonantaki]

hey did u know that theres a bird called the TUFTED TIT TYRANT?

no im not kidding

“Would’ve loved to have been in the room with the scientists who made that decision. They seem like pretty cool guys,“ Kaede laughed.

[ricieri]

Cachudito Común (Anairetes parulus) Tufted Tit-tyrant . Humedal La Isla Concón 12-02-2020 . Pequeña ave, muy activa, se puede ver constantemente revolotear y saltando entre los arbustos, es por esto su dificultad de observarlo. Sin duda lo que mas llama la atención es su cresta oscura, generando un gran contraste con sus pálidos ojos. Habita en el suroeste de Argentina, en chile esta presente desde la región de Antofagasta hasta Magallanes. Su lugar de hábitat es bastante variado viviendo en zonas cordilleranas o incluso costeras. Es una de las aves mas pequeñas de Chile pesando menos de 10 gramos, junto con el picaflor chico se llevan el trofeo de las aves mas pequeñas de América del Sur. Su alimentación se compone principalmente de pequeños insectos que encuentra a ras de piso o entre los arbustos, aunque no es raro que consuma ciertas semillas . . #birds #birdwatching  #tyrannidae  #passeriformes #chile #torito  #birdwatchingphotography #birdwatchingchile #naturaleza #nature #wildlife #fauna #faunachilena #ave #concon  #humedal  #pajareando  #chilebirds #chilepajaristico #chileestuyo #vidasilvestre #pajaritos  #canon #birds_nature  #fotoaves #birds_nature #birding #canon #tyrannidae #birdwatchingchile #birdsofinstagram #cachudito (en Humedal Desembocadura Concón) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8j-KKIJQIn/?igshid=1lo8m5460u9v0

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tufted tit-tyrant…

Tufted Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes parulus)

© Tomáš Grim

[anonsally]

Days 7 and 8 in Chile: I am sick.

I went to bed early on Friday night after drinking some herbal tea, but I felt feverish and unwell.

Yesterday, after nearly 10 hours of sleep, I didn't feel better but I also didn't feel worse, and I thought the fever might have broken as I had sweated in the night. So after packing up and checking out, we left our luggage and took the metro to the Pre-Columbian Art Museum. We only saw a small section of it, because I was pretty fatigued, but what we saw was fantastic. I especially liked the textile room.

We ate lunch in the museum cafe, and then wandered a little. We visited the cathedral, the most exciting part of which was the unexpected cat inside!

We took the metro back. The metro stations are really labyrinthine! But we managed to get back to the hostel and a taxi took us to the conference hotel, which is corporate and soulless but feels very luxurious after that hostel! Wife went to a pharmacy, but covid self-tests are apparently not available in Chile. She bought me a decongestant. I ended up resting the rest of the afternoon and getting room service for dinner. I went to bed early.

This morning I woke up feeling that my congestion was better (though maybe the decongestant was still in my system), and my throat was definitely less raw. However, my appetite was still suppressed, and the fatigue wasn't any better. It was a lovely, warm day and I was sorry not to be well enough to explore Santiago. Wife went out and had a great wander. I ended up spending a couple hours outside in the hotel's backyard, birdwatching and occasionally half-dozing in partial shade. The only new birds I saw were shiny cowbirds, though there was also a pair of rufous-tailed plantcutters (I had previously only seen the male). I was also excited to spot a tufted tit-tyrant and a grey-hooded sierra finch. The Austral blackbirds were making a varied racket!

Eventually I came back in and took a 2 hour nap, from which I woke feeling much, much worse in the congestion department. But I was also somewhat dehydrated and under-caloried (I didn't have lunch).

I got room service for dinner again and it was delicious, but I couldn't finish it, despite having eaten so little today.

I am supposed to give my talk in the conference tomorrow, and I can wear a good N-95 mask to protect others, but I am a little worried about my energy levels.