Travel Speaker SEries: Total Uruguay

Last year GGBA offered Total Uruguay for the first time—a 15-day small group trip at a great price. Two of the participants on that inaugural trip, Viviana Wolinsky and Steve Hunter, will lead us on a GGBA Travel Program Speakers trip through Uruguay.

What can you expect to see? While Uruguay is a small country (roughly the size of Washington state) with a temperature climate (very similar to ours in California), it has a wide range of habitats: the Pampas, the Atlantic Forest, savannas, wetlands, ocean coasts, countless riparian corridors, grasslands, ravines, several hill ranges, and palm tree forests. This richness in habitat types results in a great diversity of bird species that can be seen easily in a short time traveling short distances. Uruguay is also an important feeding and breeding destination for many migrant species.

We’re visiting Uruguay again next year in November (Austral Spring) when we’ll see birds on migration to the southernmost areas of South America as well as South American birds coming to nest in Uruguay.

On our tour we’ll visit the country’s most important birding hot spots, including every national park and the majority of the country’s IBAs (Important Bird Areas). Expect to see 250 species of birds on this trip! 

Date: Thursday, November 7 (7pm)