An unexpected encounter in Ushuaia This winter, the Bahía Golondrina Urban Reserve—where cold tides meet the winds of the end of the world—offered a remarkable surprise: the presence of a Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger), a species typically found in warm wetlands and temperate coastlines far from southern Patagonia. Its arrival was extraordinary. The Black Skimmer is famous for its graceful flight, skimming the water with its elongated lower mandible. It is a behavior associat

Historical discovery: the presence of the Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet is documented in Argentina for this first time.

The 2025–2026 season at Paso Garibaldi showed how climate shaped the Patagonian Seedsnipe’s fate. In October and November, the pair behaved normally, yet no chicks appeared. Negative SAM values and ENSO influence brought snow and cold, blocking reproduction. December brought milder weather, but too late. Unlike past years with juveniles ready to migrate, this season ended without offspring. Passenger photos enriched the record, offering rare evidence of how nature responds to

Magellanic Woodpecker during Birding in Tierra del Fuego National Park

The Notro - Firebush (Embotrium coccineum) is an iconic plant of the Fuegian Patagonian Andean Forest, a unique ecosystem at the southernmost tip of South America. The Notro grows both as a shrub, forming dense vegetative covers, and as a tree in older individuals, significantly contributing to the forest's structure.

UPLAND GOOSE IN WINTER TIME, BIRDING IN USHUAIA This species has an ingrained behavior of migrating during late autumn to early spring,...

BIRDING IN USHUAIA The group of CONICET researchers that together with the collaboration of Marcelo (Magellanic Nature Tours) study the natural changes in bird communities in Nothofagus forests of South Patagonia. To face changes of climate in the high latitude forests, long-term studies are necessary to determine the natural variability of the communities in order to develop better conservation strategies. For this, we studied closed and open forests inside the Tierra d

This season (October 2019 - April 2020) was very interesting the new reproductive record of a couple in the areas we visited for observation

White Bellied Seedsnipe Is it a vulnerable bird or not? Many years that I have been observing and taking note of the behavior of the White-bellied Seedsnipe, I always wonder what conservation status it should have. The question is not simple, but it is another bird that does not have much information, its spring / summer habitat is not in danger or because it is from 600 meters to 900 meters high. This does not represent a great risk today. Likewise, like many birds in their

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