Relatively few birds, such as the Darwin's Rhea, Andean Condor, and certain miners and yellow-finches, are frequently found in the vast expanses of puna grasslands, but numerous birds are associated with the highland lakes and marshes that are found in the puna grasslands, for example the Andean Goose, Andean Flamingo, Andean Avocet, Giant Coot, Puna Teal and Diademed Sandpiper-plover.
Geositta antarctica migrates as far north as Mendoza during the autumn and winter seasons, but keeps to arid areas, and it is most numerous on heavily grazed grassland on the leeward side of Tierra del Fuego.