{"id":1791,"date":"2013-03-07T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/blogs\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:15:06","slug":"just-back-patagonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/just-back-patagonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Back: Patagonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slideshows.massaudubon.org\/photos\/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=28081455&amp;AlbumKey=DTwWXw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1820\" alt=\"Patagonia Trip copyright Carol Passera\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/02\/patagoniatrip.jpg\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/02\/patagoniatrip.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/02\/patagoniatrip-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>In January 2013, 14 travelers joined Mass Audubon ornithologist Wayne Petersen for our Patagonia birding trip in southern Argentina and Chile.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of 14 days, we saw the towering spires of the Andes mountains as a backdrop to a soaring Andean condor; emerald waters of the Laguna Sucia with huge Magellanic woodpeckers (South America\u2019s largest woodpecker species); and hanging glaciers with torrent ducks diving in the rushing river water.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/glaciarium-ice-museum-calafate\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Museum<\/a> in Calafate, Argentina\u00a0was particularly amazing and as was the stunningly blue ice on the face of the Moreno Glacier calving right before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Other fantastic sightings included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The endemic <strong>Magellanic plover<\/strong> (whose estimated world population is thought to be less than 1,500) unobtrusively working the water\u2019s edge in Calafate.<\/li>\n<li>Hundreds (thousands?) of juvenile and molting adult <strong>Magellanic penguins<\/strong> dozing near their desert nest burrows at Punta Tombo.\u00a0Our local guide, Carol Mackie de Passera, lived here for many years, raising her children while banding hundreds of penguins for Wildlife Conservation International.<\/li>\n<li>The humorous spectacle of gangs of road-running<strong> lesser rheas<\/strong> racing across the Patagonian steppe.<\/li>\n<li>The irritatingly close (yet totally invisible!) squeaks of a rare <strong>austral rail<\/strong> calling practically at our feet.<\/li>\n<li>And the sight of a rare<strong> huemul doe<\/strong> nursing her fawn on a distant Patagonian hillside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See some great shots from the trip in our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slideshows.massaudubon.org\/photos\/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=28081455&amp;AlbumKey=DTwWXw\" target=\"_blank\">photo slideshow<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and check out some of our other\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/NH_Travel\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">trips<\/a> <\/strong>we have planned for the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em style=\"text-align: right\">Photo\u00a0\u00a9 Carol Passera<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2013, 14 travelers joined Mass Audubon ornithologist Wayne Petersen for our Patagonia birding trip in southern Argentina and Chile. Over the course of 14 days, we saw the towering spires of the Andes mountains as a backdrop to a soaring Andean condor; emerald waters of the Laguna Sucia with huge Magellanic woodpeckers (South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-patagonia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-sT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1568,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/getting-started-and-moving-forward\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791,"position":0},"title":"Getting Started and Moving Forward","author":"Henry","date":"January 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently completed my first few weeks as the new president of Mass Audubon, and I couldn't be more excited to be here. 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