raptor trips

Join the author of Raptors of South America on a Raptor Trip and learn about raptor identification and behavior first hand. Get involved in the very process of gathering field data for the book including raptor abundance, GPS locations, and photographs.

Upcoming Raptor Trips

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Highlights of Previous Raptor Trips

Andean Patagonia Raptor Trip - Argentina.

20-30 January 2008. We arrived in Buenos

Aires and flew to Bariloche. From there we drove to San Martin de los Andes (Neuquén) and Esquel (Río Negro) thru southern Beeches forests, steppes, and by majestic lakes. We enjoyed many great looks of White-throated Hawk including a young and an adult bringing food to a nest. We visited an active territory of Rufous-tailed Hawk where we saw both a juvenile and an adult. It was rather

Adult Rufous-tailed Hawk photographed on this Raptor Trip

warm and therefore Andean Condors were up in the mountains -- we had distant views of them.

Atlantic Forest Endemics Raptor Trip - Brazil

10-21 November 2008. We flew into Sao Paulo and drove south to Cananeia where we had many sightings of Rufous-thighed Kite and one White-necked Hawk soaring! We drove north thru Sao Paulo city to Itatiaia National Park where we watched an adult Gray-headed Kite perched, a soaring Black Hawk-Eagle being mobbed by a Rufous-thighed Kite (of which we observed a flock of 6 soaring together!), and a Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle. Near the entrance of the park part of the group watched a Crowned Solitary-Eagle

Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle at Cananeia

soraing over grassslands. We flew to Maceio in Alagoas and drove northeast to Uniao dos Palmares. Near Coimbra we had good views of both perched and flying White-collared Kites, a

critically endangered species and a main target species of our trip. We also watched Manled Hawks soar several times. We had great close-up views of a Pearl Kite south of Maceio.

We enjoyed a total of 25 species of raptors including Turkey, Lesser Yellow-headed, and Black Vultures, Gray-headed, White-collared, Hook-billed, Swallow-tailed, Rufous-thighed, and Plumbeus Kites (7 species of kites!), Crane, White-collared, Mantled, and Savanna Hawks, Crowned Solitary-Eagle, Gray-lined, Roadside, Short-tailed, White-tailed (first sighting for Alagoas!) and Zone-tailed Hawks, Black-and-white, and Black Hawk-Eagles, Southern, and Yel

White-collared Kite photographed near Coimbra on this Raptor Trip

low-headed Caracaras, and American Kestrel.

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