Birdwatching
A big advantage of using Paraguay as your gateway to the bird life of South America, is that you will almost certainly not meet any other bird watchers. El Roble is situated right on the edge of the Chaco and Pantanal regions, which are known as two of the best places in South America to experience birds. The bird watcher has different options while staying at El Roble. Firstly they can simply stay on the farm and walk to the nearby rivers to explore the environment for themselves. Or, they can travel further afield, for which I can provide transport and advice. More details and options can be found under birdwatching trips.
Ornithologists Alice Hughes (University of Bristol) and Piotr Angiel (Warschau University) completed the following inventory of birds in a 30km radius around El Roble in the winter of 2007 while they were staying with us.
| Amazon kingfisher American anhinga American kestrel ash-colourd cuckoo azure jay azure shouldered tanager band-tailed manakin barred antshrike bay-winged cowbird black hooded parakeet black throated mango black vulture black-collared hawk black-hooded parakeet blond-crested woodpecker blue-crowned trogon blue-winged parakeet boat billed flycatcher brown-colored flycatcher burrowing owl canary winged parakeet cattle tyrant chaco chachalaca chestnut eared aracari chimango caracara collared forest falcon cream-backed woodpecker creamy billed gnatcatcher crested caracara field flicker fork tailed flychather giant wood-rail gilded hummingbird glittering bellied emerald golden billed saltator golden-green woodpecker golden-winged cacique grassland yellowfinch Grater rhea |
gray monjita great egret great kiskadee great rufous woodcreeper green cheeked parakeet green ibis green kingfisher grey-hooded parakeet grey-necked wood-rail guaira cuckoo house sparrow jaribu stork ladder-tailed nightjar laughing falcon lesser yellow headed vulture limpkin little woodpecker long-tailed nightjar maguari stork monk parakeet moorhen narrow-billed woodcreeper Olivaceous Elaenia pale-crested woodpecker pheaant cuckoo plain-breasted ground dove plumbeous ibis plush-crested jay purplish jay red-billed scythebill red-crested cardinal red-rumped cacique ringed kingfisher roadside hawk roseate spoonbill ruddy ground dove rufescent tigerheron rufous -bellied thrush rufous sided crake |
rufus homero rusty coloured seedeater saffron finch savannah hawk sayaca tanager scarlet headed blackbird scissor-billed woodcreeper screaming cowbird smooth billed ani snowy egret solitary cacique southern lapwing spot-backed puffbird spot-flanked gallinule spotted tinamou squirral cuckoo streamer tailed tyrant tataupa tinamou toco toucan turkey vulture turquoise-frounted parrot vermillion flycatcher whistling heron white banded mocking bird white monjita white throated caracara white woodpecker white-barred piculet white-bellied seedeater white-eyed parakeet white-headed marsh tyrant white-necked heron yellow winged blackbird yellow-billed cardinal yellow-headed caracara |