Looking for specialized guide service throughout Chile?   Customized tours are available, so if a satisfactory itinerary is not listed here, please inquire. Please refer to our respective web sites for more details. 

Cruise ship travelers:  plan your shore birding along the west coast of South America for the 2009 and 2010 seasons. Arrange private tours with Barbara or Ricardo in ports of Arica and Punta Arenas. 

Birding the length of Chile:  A sampler of Chile's birds by area.  Visit all of Chile or  concentrate on target species or unique habitats.  

Please contact Barb for birding contacts in central Chile, pelagics and shore trips from cruise ships at Valparaiso.

BIRDING CHILE NORTH

BIRDING CHILE  SOUTH

Atacama Desert, Lauca Park & Chile's far north:  15 years guiding for birds and nature

For many years Barb Knapton fished commercially near Kodiak, Alaska, for salmon, herring, halibut, and crab. Barb has a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has birded and botanized  year round in the Andean village of Putre since 1993.    www.birdingaltoandino.com    altoandino@yahoo.com

Above: Barb on the right. The llama and alpaca in the photo were orphans raised by village kids.  They practically get in the van to look for cookies.  Picture kindly supplied by John and Betty Hall, UK  

A Slice of the Andes for the birds: Arica to Lauca National Park

Atacama Desert tour: Aymara culture, altiplano wildlife, coastal marine mammals

Birding and Nature in Arica:  Valleys of the Atacama Desert

Botanizing with Barb

Torres del Paine, Patagonia, 
Tierra del Fuego 


Birding in the island of Tierra del Fuego

Birding the Strait of Magellan and the vast Pampas

Birding in Torres del Paine National Park and Argentine Patagonia

Naturalist Ricardo Matus works in several research and conservation projects related to birds and marine mammals of the extreme south of Chile. Ricardo paints birds in watercolours and did the illustrations for the book “The Birds of Magellan” and currently is working on the plates of a field guide for the Birds of Patagonia. He lives in Punta Arenas where he has guided special interest tours since 1985.       info@naturapatagonia.cl      
www.naturapatagonia.cl

Right:  Everyone's favorite target bird, and Lauca National Park is about the best place in the Andes to see the Diademed Sandpiper-Plover.  

BIRDING THE LAKE DISTRICT

Jorge Ruiz, owner of and guide for Hualamo Nature Tours has been birdwatching since the age of ten. He's a veterinarian and ornithologist who has dedicated a great part of his life to the study and conservation of birds.  Jorge has participated in conservation projects with species such as mink, southern river otter, Red-legged Cormorant, Rufous-legged Owl and several raptors.               www.hualamo.cl

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