More news - August 2021



Coypu
Myocastor coypus
Coypu
28-08-21 © Javier Guillermo González
Yellow pygmy rice rat
Oligoryzomys flavescens
Yellow pygmy rice rat
28-08-21 © Javier Guillermo González




Water level in the Coypu Pond
A dry summer and without pumping water the water level of the pond descended remarkably. At the end of June cleaning and maintenance work began and the pump came into operation. Since then water has been being injected and the aspect of the pond has changed once more. Since the Viamonte end is shallower than the Brasil's end the pond bed was exposed leaving a mudflat ideal for shorebirds, snipes, ibises, etc.. Now the water level is rising and the avifauna is changing.
Agua en Coipos/Water in Coypu Pond
17-7-21 © Javier González
Agua en Coipos/Water in Coypu Pond
30-7-21 © Javier González
Agua en Coipos/Water in Coypu Pond
30-7-21 © Javier González
Agua en Coipos/Water in Coypu Pond
30-7-21 © Javier González
Agua en Coipos/Water in Coypu Pond
21-8-21 © Javier González
At the Brasil end a new water measuring pole was set. It shows how the pond is being flooded. On July 10th it was at -45 and on August 14th, almost at -25.
Vara medidora/Water measuring pole
10-7-21 © Javier González
Vara medidora/Water measuring pole
14-8-21 © Javier González





Leaf beetle
Plagiodera erythroptera
Leaf beetle
12-08-21 © Gustavo F. Brahamian
Leaf beetle
12-08-21 © Gustavo F. Brahamian
Dichrous skipper
Theagenes dichrous
Dichrous skipper
07-08-21 © Javier Guillermo González

White-eared opossum
Didelphis albiventris
White-eared opossum
06-08-21 © Liliana H. Rodríguez

Side-necked turtle
Phrynops hilarii
Side-necked turtle
07-08-21 © Liliana H. Rodríguez
Side-necked turtle
07-08-21 © Liliana H. Rodríguez
Side-necked turtle
07-08-21 © Héctor Horacio García
Side-necked turtle
07-08-21 © Héctor Horacio García
We were watching birds in the new viewpoint when this turtle climbed the viewpoint at one end and walked across it o descend to the pond at the other end

Painted turtle
Trachemys dorbigni
Painted turtle
07-08-21 © Héctor Horacio García

Remus greenstreak
Cyanophrys remus
Remus greenstreak
01-08-21 © Guillermo Costa

Number eighty
Diaethria candrena candrena
Number eighty
31-07-21 © Eduardo Nicolás Cusano
Mexican silverspot
Dione moneta
Mexican silverspot
31-07-21 © Eduardo Nicolás Cusano
Gaudy sphinx
Eumorpha labruscae
Gaudy sphinx
06-12-20 © Carlos González Ledo
Gaudy sphinx
06-12-20 © Carlos González Ledo
Gaudy sphinx
06-12-20 © Carlos González Ledo

Coypu
Myocastor coypus
Coypu
31-07-21 © Eduardo Nicolás Cusano
Coypu
31-07-21 © Leonel Melvern

With red-fronted coot

Bella Vista toad
Rhinella fernandezae
Bella Vista toad
31-07-21 © Marcelo Leanes

Urutu pit viper
Bothrops alternatus
Urutu pit viper
17-07-21 © Javier Guillermo González
Urutu pit viper
17-07-21 © Javier Guillermo González
Urutu pit viper
17-07-21 © Javier Guillermo González

Painted turtle
Trachemys dorbigni
Painted turtle
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Painted turtle
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Two painted turtels and a side-necked turtle behind

Painted turtle
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Between two side-necked turtles

Side-necked turtle
Phrynops hilarii
Side-necked turtle
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian