BIRDWATCHING

Argentina is gaining a reputation as one of the premier destinations for Bird Watching. Southern Patagonia and Strobel plateu in particular, located in the province of Santa Cruz, is unique in its diversity of landscape and bird species, among which it is possible to find the world renowned Hooded Grebe (Maca Tobiano / Podiceps Gallardoi).

Estancia Laguna Verde Lodge, located just 50 kilometres from famous Number 40 road, right at Strobel plateu (6 km from Strobel lake), is the perfect place to pursue your birding experience in Argentina, with the confort of world class lodging. We offer fantastic cuisine prepared by our chef, personally selected wines, and other activities that include fly fishing, visits to archaeological sites that date back more than 5000 years, among its most important highlights.

These are some of the birds that are possible to watch at Estancia Laguna Verde:

Hooded Grebe
Black-chested Buzzard Eagle
Andean Condor
Aplomado Falcon
Baird’s Sandpiper
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Black-faced Ibis
Black-headed Swan
Buff-winged Cinclodes
Chilean Flamingo
Chiloe Wigeon
Chocolate-vented Tyrant
Cinerous Harrier
Cinnamon-bellied Ground-Tyrant
Common Miner
Cordilleran Canastero
Coscoroba Swan
Crested Duck
Eared Dove
Flying Steamer-Duck
Greater Yellow-Finch
Grey-breasted Seedsnipe

Grey-breasted Seedsnipe
Grey-hooded Sierra-Finch
Kelp Gull
Least Seedsnipe
Lesser Rhea
Long-tailed Meadowlark
Magellanic Plover
Neotropic Cormorant
Red Shoveler
Red-backed Hawk
Red-gartered Coot
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Scale-throated Earthcreeper
Short-billed Miner
Silvery Grebe
Tawny-throated Dotterel
Two-banded Plover
Upland Goose
White-throated Caracara
Wilson’s Phalarope
Yellow-billed Pintail
Others