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Cruise: Around Cape Horn

Santiago, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina

Our pre-cruise extension around Santiago offers many wonderful birding opportunities… …in amazingly beautiful surroundings…. …with spectacular birds… …some cute mammals… …and a wealth of waterbirds… …along with some delightful small marsh dwellers. Once our cruise begins, it will soon become apparent that this is a wonderful seabirding trip…. …with up to 8 albatrosses and up to 30 species of smaller tubenoses. …and there will be many riveting landbird moments as well such as this encounter with Lesser Rheas. We will travel on a big cruise ship… …offering various level of accommodations (here an interior cabin, the least expensive option)… …and of course numerous restaurants and various activities. These ship are, perhaps surprisingly, wonderful for seabirding… …as they’re remarkably stable, even in rough seas, and telescopes can be used! We will be sailing through marvelous scenery - the Osorno Volcano in Chile… …the Amalia glaciar in the Chilean Fjords… …and we’ll pass the legendary Cape Horn. We will have seven landing during our cruise, all of our own design… …visiting habitats like <i>Nothofagus</i>forest in Ushuaia (Argentina)… …penguin colonies on the Falklands Islands… …and the Botanical garden of Montevideo (Uruguay). During these excursions we’ll use comfortable buses… …or when necessary four-wheel drive vehicles as here on the Falkland Islands. That trip is just magical for seabirds - here a close Yellow-nosed Albatross… …and we should see hundreds of Black-browed Albatross… …but we’ll also see Southern Giant Petrels and many more tubenoses… …including some very difficult to see elsewhere, like Stejneger’s Petrel… …or the recently described Pincoya Storm-petrel. We’ll visit a Gentoo Penguin colony… …where there are also majestic King Penguins. During our excusions we’ll look for land-based birds, like the Elegant Crested Tinamou near Puerto-Madryn (Argentina)… …the Magellanic Plover in Patagonia… …the endemic Falkland Steamer-duck… …and the stunning White-throated Hummingbird near Montevideo. Sea mammals will be another feature of our cruise. Bottlenose Dolphin… …Fin Whales… … and South American Sea Lions are just a few of them! In short this is a wonderful cruise with great birds, spectacular scenery and interesting, varied days on land.

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