23 Oct 2025 - 01 Nov 2025 (10 days)
USD7,595 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Robert Wilcox
Pricing notes : Argentina is experiencing significant hyperinflation making accurate pricing impossible, tour prices may thus change further
Tour price (Per person): USD7,595 * GBP5,811 * EUR6,940 * AUD11,259
Single Supplement: USD1,250 * GBP956 * EUR1,142 * AUD1,853
Flight costs: USD110 * GBP84 * EUR101 * AUD163
Can be linked with: Argentina & Chile - Southern Patagonia incl. Torres del Paine NP 2025
22 Oct 2026 - 31 Oct 2026 (10 days)
USD6,200 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Forrest Rowland
Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change* **Argentina is experiencing significant hyperinflation making accurate price estimation impossible**
Tour price (Per person): USD6,200 * GBP4,744 * EUR5,666 * AUD9,191
Can be linked with: Argentina & Chile - Southern Patagonia incl. Torres del Paine NP 2026
One of the classic birdwatching destinations, Argentina’s Northern Patagonia and Pampas areas not only offers superb birding, but also excellent cuisine, accommodation, and transport. A vast country that possesses a large variety of habitats and climates, our tour introduces one to the famous Gaucho ridden Pampas, windswept steppes, and endless barren Atlantic shores. Bird diversity thrives here, with almost half of Argentina’s endemics available. The southern Atlantic coasts will provide for some of the most spectacular scenery in the country.
We start off with some relaxed city birding around Buenos Aires before heading south, birding the wetlands and tidal mudflats to Punta Rasa. We search for the rare and endangered Yellow Cardinal and range restricted Pampas Meadowlark around Bahía Blanca, while targeting two endemics - White-throated Cacholote and Sandy Gallito around Las Grutas. With a burgeoning list of impressive species including Hudson’s Canastero, Hudson’s Black Tyrant, Crested Gallito, Olrog’s Gull, Carbonated Sierra Finch, Cinnamon Warbling Finch and Black-crowned Monjita, we head to what will surely be one of the tour highlights, the magnificent Valdés Peninsula, home of Sea Lion hunting Killer Whales, Chubut Steamer Ducks as well as several immense bird and marine mammal breeding grounds.
Chubut Steamer Duck; Pampas Meadowlark; Yellow Cardinal; Olrog’s Gull; Darwin's Nothura; Elegant Crested, Patagonian & Red-winged Tinamous; Burrowing Parrot; Sandy Gallito; Carbonated Sierra Finch; White-throated Cacholote; Straight-billed & Curve-billed Reedhaunters; White-tipped Plantcutter; Scaly-throated & Band-tailed Earthcreepers; Patagonian, Hudson's & Cordilleran Canasteros; Magellanic Penguin; Dolphin Gull; Patagonian Mockingbird; Andean Condor; Short-billed Miner; Austral Negrito; Cinnamon & Black-and-rufous Warbling Finches; Hudson's Black & Spectacled Tyrants; Pampa Finch; Greater & Lesser Rheas; Lark-like Brushrunner; Tufted Tit-Spinetail; Southern Screamer; Warbling Doradito; Chiloe Wigeon; South American Painted-snipe; Firewood-Gatherer; Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail; Many-colored Rush Tyrant; Snowy-crowned Tern.
Guanaco; Patagonian Mara; South American Grey Fox; Culpeo; Humboldt’s Hog-nosed Skunk; Large Hairy Armadillo; South American Sea Lion; Southern Elephant Seal; Killer Whale; Patagonian Huemul; Patagonian Lesser Cavy; Lesser Grison; Geoffroy’s Cat (rare)
Patagonian steppe, wetlands, tidal mudflats, coastal steppe, Atlantic Patagonia, Patagonian plateau
Moderate along the coast, moderate to cold in the higher steppe, strong winds can be expected at times
8 with 1 Rockjumper leader & local birding leader
Mostly easy, with many species provide decent visuals in open conditions. Some low-density targets.
Comfortable.
Mostly easy, with many species provide decent visuals in open conditions. Some low-density targets.
spectacular scenery, pristine & little-explored wilderness, great cuisine, super-friendly people
Good to good+. Some species distant, and bright light can be challenging. Hummingbird feeders at some sites.
Peter Kaestner was completely committed to getting every bird possible on both tours. He was sensitive to all the needs of the participants and worked tirelessly on what could have been potentially serious limitations to the logistics. Getting the chauffeur/vehicle company to recognize the needs of a birding tour was difficult. And because of lack of flexibility in overtime use of the driver and deviations from an original itinerary, Peter had to work hard to make sure we had opportunities for every bird regardless. He was uncommonly successful in achieving these results.
Peter Kaestner was an excellent guide, combining outstanding bird-finding and identification abilities, capable and efficient logistical planning, and strong social and interpersonal skills. One especially commendable feature of Peter's bird guiding is his limiting of playback to the minimum needed for the bird to come out and be seen by the whole group (rather than for optimal photos or prolonged views), thereby minimizing disturbance to what are often localized or threatened bird species. We hope that other Rockjumper guides will adopt Peter's approach.
Peter is an excellent guide! He’s very friendly and did an excellent job is solving an problem that came along. PLU, He knows the birds well and would help us key in on the differences. I will go with him again! Pablo was our local guide and did a phenomenal job as well.
This trip was excellent, the guide excellent, and the group experience was great.
This was an excellent tour and Peter did a very good job. He made the transition from birder/lister to tour guide very well. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and personable. I also liked that he allowed the tour participants to provide input and vote on any potential itinerary modifications and provided us with the information needed to make decisions. All good.
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