Backcountry Birding

  • Bariloche

    Bariloche

    After my time chasing the Pampas Meadowlark in Bahia Blanca, I caught the bus to Bariloche, on the opposite side of the country. It left Bahia Blanca at 2 am, and got into Bariloche at about 5pm the next day (15 hours). This brings the total bus time to about 27 hours so far! I Read more

  • Bahia Blanca – Pampas Meadowlark

    Bahia Blanca – Pampas Meadowlark

    The sun beat down on the brim of my hat as I stared out at the endless flat pasture, broken only by a few cottonwood trees on the horizon. It was almost noon. Another group of Long-tailed Meadowlarks was foraging along a barbed-wire fence by the roadside, so I watched as they flew back and Read more

  • Bahía Blanca: Burrowing Parakeets

    Bahía Blanca: Burrowing Parakeets

    Bahia Blanca is the biggest town in the south of Buenos Aires province. A port city with several factories and diverse semi urban neighborhoods, it’s a very different vibe from the tight streets of Buenos Aires. Here’s a street in the neighborhood where I was staying: The owner of my hostel heard that I was Read more

  • Buenos Aires

    Buenos Aires

    The plane landed at about 5am local time, and I groggily made my way through immigration and customs. On the plane I had met an architecture student from El Salvador; he was on the way back from christmas break as he studies at the University of La Plata (45 minute drive from the Buenos Aires Read more

  • Nicoya Peninsula (Pacific Coast)

    Nicoya Peninsula (Pacific Coast)

    After exploring some areas around the Turrialba area, I headed down to Montezuma on the Pacific Coast. The Nicoya Peninsula is the large body of land in the westernmost part of the coast, and it’s faster to take a ferry across than to drive all the way around the gulf. I was headed there to Read more

  • Turrialba

    Turrialba

    Here are some photos from the area around the Turrialba Volcano. Photo-heavy, text-light. More to come about my time on the Nicoya Peninsula in the next post! There are some pictures. I’m headed out of Costa Rica now, so I’ll be trying to put together a post about the beach sometime in the next couple Read more

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