News - June 2018
This female tanager is far from its known area of distribution. It inhabits open woods in the north of the country
Yellow-billed Teal
Anas flavirostris
30-06-18 © Cora Rimoldi
The mist was very dense and the visibility was not good when I arrived. The yellow-billed teals did not care. They ran one after the other defiantly and emitting their particular prr prr. I walked along the sidewalk since the reserve would be closed till 9:30. Several ducks at the Coypu pond at the Viamonte end. We counted 210 white-faced whistling-ducks and 60 fulvous whistling-ducks on the first three islets. Another abundant duck was the rosy-billed pochard with 35 individuals. There were six yellow-billed pintails and ringed teals, too.
30-06-18 © Cora Rimoldi
Yellow-billed pintails in a varied group of ducks
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna viduata
30-06-18 © Cora Rimoldi
With fulvous whistling-ducks and some rosy-billed pochards
Tufted Tit-Spinetail
Leptasthenura platensis
30-06-18 © Cora Rimoldi
More of the bird survey
Bird survey organized by the COARECS - June 23rd, 2018
The provisional count was 115 species, with sightings quite out of the ordinary