The Black-faced Ibis, Theristicus melanopis, is a handsome bird, which breeds in Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. It is very adaptable, so although open fields are its expected habitat (and outside the breeding seasoning it migrates to the Argentine pampas), it also ventures into quite different territory. Here are a pair poking around in a field for insects, worms, or small vertebrates:
They nest in colonies, often on rocky cliffs:
And in Chiloé they are so laid back that this one settled down on a window ledge. I think it is a juvenile, because of the scalloped wing edges.
I also liked the Blackish Oystercatcher, Haematopus ater.
It haunts rocky coasts from Peru to Tierra del Fuego, dodging the waves:
foraging for shellfish:
Apart from that flashy red bill, it has red eyeliner and pale pink feet with black claws, looking as though it had partied all night, with a very Goth pedicure:
Eyes on the Wild 
That’s an interesting pair of birds!! The Oystercatcher is unique & comically different. Do you have a book, in which you’ve kept track of all the different insects, birds, animals, etc that you’ve seen?!?
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I don’t really have one book. For everything on my own land, I have spreadsheets. For elsewhere, my photos are carefully catalogued, so I can search for “ibis”, and find every ibis I have photographed in the world, its species (11 so far), and where and when I saw it. But there are gaps, and things I saw but didn’t photograph.
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You seem meticulous! Your wild-life-adventures have been incredibly amazing to follow! So enjoyable!
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