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 - Barred
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)