Burrowing parrots
Nests in the cliffs.
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El Cóndor is a small beach town where the Río Negro meets the Atlantic, about thirty kilometres from Viedma, across from Carmen de Patagones. It is named after the Danish ship Cóndor, wrecked near the coast on 26 December 1881; because of that wreck the Río Negro lighthouse was built, working since May 1887, the oldest in Patagonia. Its best-known feature is the line of sea cliffs that begins beside the town, home to the largest known parrot colony in the world: colourful green burrowing parrots that dig their nests in the soft cliff faces, with some thirty-five thousand active nests counted along the first twelve kilometres of coast. The birds arrive in great numbers in spring and fill the air with noise, and the colony is a municipal nature reserve. The beach and wandering are free; you can see the nests by walking on the sand below the cliffs or from the coast road above. Late spring and summer are best, and in summer the long beach fills with holidaymakers.
Nests in the cliffs.
On the cliff.
And the long beach.
Provincial Route 1, about 30 km from Viedma, at the mouth of the Río Negro
In the sea cliffs that start beside the town, walking on the beach below or from the coast road above.