Here are 50 recordings from this
trip to highlands and lowlands, with wetter and drier sites.
This is a selection of what we
recorded there on minidisc, and typically it contains several species that may
puzzle the birder visiting these sites: often heard but not often seen.
Included is a recording of a
spluttering river dolphin.
The sounds are in mp3 format,
which greatly reduces file size, and which can be played easily now (just try
by clicking on the file name). In case you cannot yet play mp3, download e.g.
the free WinAmp player program at e.g. www.download.com
The species are given below in the
sequence of the trip. I checked this selection on Sjoerd Mayer’s CD-ROM Birds
of Bolivia version 2 (see info on www.birdsongs.com).
Compared to the wealth of sounds on that CD-ROM (with an enormous photo
collection as well), the selection below is just meant to appetize, but still
representative of what you will hear on such a trip in that season. Sjoerd
himself has helped me identify some of the species of the early part of the
trip.
Sjoerd Mayer himself checked this
page later also, and made several corrections and found several extra species
at the background. His identifications are indicated with "SjM".
Rio Pirai - semi-arid
foothills of Andes near Santa Cruz - in the bushes along the river
A002
- Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (69 KB)
At Samaipata, La
Vispera lodge garden/orchard etc. c. 1500 m semi-arid but locally more moisty
A011
- Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet (65 KB)
A016a2
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet (24 KB)
A016a1f
- Variable Antshrike (42 KB)
Into the Cuevas
valley, moistier subtropical.
A031a
- Ochre-cheeked Spinetail (61 KB)
A035
- Tataupa Tinamou (and Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant once in beginning) (60
KB) (SjM: plus singing Roadside Hawk at the background)
In Siberia cloud
forest:
A060
- Buff-banded Tyrannulet (30 KB)
A064
- Brown Tinamou (28 KB)
A076
- Crested Quetzal (36 KB)
A081
- White-eared Solitaire once (33 KB)
A082s
- Rufous-faced Antpitta; with tapaculo (53 KB) (SjM: the latter is
Trilling Tapaculo, also known as Gray Tapaculo)
From Tunal back
through arid bushes at 1500 m
A086
- Spot-backed Puffbird (14 KB)
In Siberia cloud
forest:
A108
- Andean Slaty thrush (SjM); Crested Quetzal (76 KB)
A110s
- Barred Forest-falcon (47 KB)
A112
- Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager (98 KB)
Behind Tambo Mission School
- arable fields, hedges etc.:
A119b
- White-tipped Plantcutter (37 KB)
Chaco forest in
lowland Jardin Botanico Santa Cruz:
A129s
- White-backed Fire-eye (93 KB)
A133
- Plain-crowned Spinetail (82 KB) (SjM: with Tropical Parula)
Near Laguna Suarez in
moist tropical lowland with savanna's, Trinidad:
A143
- Great Kiskadee, White-tipped Dove, Rufous-tailed Jacamar
(89 KB)
A149s
- Striped Cuckoo; Piratic Flycatcher (67 KB); SjM: also Greater
Thornbird
Near and at the
Blue-throated Macaw excursion lodge in savanna woodland North
A163s
- Great Potoo; Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (2) (at night) (110 KB)
B002b
- river dolphin, Rufous-browed Peppershrike, Thrush-like Wren (53
KB)
B010f
- Chestnut-backed Antshrike (42 KB)
B010f1
- Blue-winged Parrotlet (33 KB)
At river near
Trinidad:
B019
- Chopi Blackbird group, very agitated (71 KB)
B028
- Blue-headed Parrot (59 KB)
B035 - C047: in
tropical rainforest lowland zone near Riberalta
At Hamburgo, low
forest near river at Riberalta:
B036a
- Band-tailed Nighthawk, Pauraque (139 KB)
B041s
- Blackish Antbird (pair, acc. to SjM CDROM) (82 KB) (SjM: this is
subspecies fuscicauda, which probably will get species status)
In terra firme
rainforest remains of Antofagasta near Riberalta:
B052
- Buff-throated Woodcreeper (47 KB)
B057
- Red-headed Manakin display song of 2 males (36 KB)
In terra firme (and
other) rainforest remains of Siete Julio near Riberalta:
B063a
- Cinnamon Attila (52 KB) (SjM: with calls of Straight-billed
Woodcreeper)
B065a
- Warbling Antbird (72 KB)
B066a
- Mealy Parrot (55 KB)
B070b
- Scale-breasted Woodpecker (33 KB)
B071e
- Black-spotted Barbet (60 KB)
At the small river
near Siete Julio near Riberalta:
C023as
- Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin (60 KB)
C027
- Amazonian Streaked Antwren (53 KB)
Along forest island in
Lago Tumichucua near Riberalta:
C038s
- White-eyed Attila (81 KB) (SjM: with calls of a Tityra probably)
Coroico road puna:
C049s
- Bar-winged Cinclodes pair probably near nest (82 KB)
Cotapata upper
temperate woods:
C055
- Tufted Tit-Tyrant (38 KB)
Road to Chulumani
temperate forest down into yungas:
C071
- Pearly-vented Tody-tyrant (60 KB)
C072
- SjM: Two-banded Warbler (48 KB)
In Apa Apa forest
(yungas; lower temperate) near Chulumani:
C083a
- Masked Trogon (60 KB)
C083b
- Three-striped Warbler (62 KB)
C100
- Yungas Manakin (76 KB)
C104
- Russet-backed Oropendola call (32 KB)
Back along Chulumani
road up to upper temperate forest:
C128
- White-necked Thrush song (37 KB)
C132
- Rufous-breasted Woodquail (based on altitude + SjM CDROM) (36 KB)