Birds - Chile

These feathered images comprise the summer months, zig-zagging the longest north to south country on Earth. My educational journey along the western slopes of the Andes and the nearby, Pacific Ocean shoreline - from the Big Island of the Land of Fire (Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego), northward thru the Patagonia Ice Fields, Magellanic Subpolar Forest, Valdivian Temperate Forest, Matorral (scrubland), and to the Atacama Desert and high Central Andean plateaus.

Andean Avocet - known locally as "Caití" - this species is found on or near saline and alkaline lakes, open parts of marshes, seasonally flooded meadows and small pools upon of Andean Plateau, between about 8,200-16,400 ft. (2,500-5,000 m). During the non-breeding season they will frequent other types of wetlands and also tidal flats along the coasts. They feed on aquatic invertebrates, small crustaceans and molluscs - foraging in shallow water by sweeping the bill side to side - and using the lamellae inside the bill to filter the prey. These specimens in the Salar Ascotan - very northeastern Angofagasta (region).

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Andean Avocet - known locally as "Caití" - this species is found on or near saline and alkaline lakes, open parts of marshes, seasonally flooded meadows and small pools upon of Andean Plateau, between about 8,200-16,400 ft. (2,500-5,000 m). During the non-breeding season they will frequent other types of wetlands and also tidal flats along the coasts. They feed on aquatic invertebrates, small crustaceans and molluscs - foraging in shallow water by sweeping the bill side to side - and using the lamellae inside the bill to filter the prey. These specimens in the Salar Ascotan - very northeastern Angofagasta (region).

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Birds - Chile