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Natural Monument Salar de Surire was declared Ramsar Site # 873 for being one of the four most important places in Chile for nesting flamingos; the salar has thousands of birds with the shallow-water feeding James' Flamingo being particularly evident. Some other interesting Surire-area birds are the Red-backed Sierra-Finch, the Puna Tinamou, the Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe, and possibly you'll see one of Chile's newest birds, the Rufous-webbed Bush-Tyrant Polioxolmis rufipennis which Barb found feeding young in the Polylepis tarapacana copse pictured at the right. Some of the Surire area mammals include vicuñas, llamas, alpacas, cuy, armadillo, fox, vizcachas, puma, and the extremely rare Andean cat Oreailurus jacobita. |
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In December, while
camping at the Surire hot springs, Roland and Adele from Holland and
Barb from Putre were joined by 2 young flamingos
(Phoenicopterus chilensis) which landed nearby, unconcerned by our
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