Went 5,300 Miles to see This?

We flew 5,300 miles to Chile to see a species we can find four miles from our house (nesting in an electrical sub-station).  The Monk Parakeet is considered an introduced species in the U.S. and in Santiago so we really didn’t get to count it as a lifer until we saw them in Argentina.  They were right in downtown Santiago squawking and rushing from tree to tree foraging for food.