With side-necked turtle

Something got around its neck

 With chromatic aberration

With chromatic aberration

First one hornero chick peeped out and opened its bill. But when food arrived it was three hungry mouths claiming for food

In latin rufoaxillaris refers to the rufous axilla. It is only a couple of feathers

Eating mulberry

In the middle fulvous whistling-duck

Three white-face whistling-ducks in the water, four fulvous whistling-ducks, three yellow-billed teals, a neotropic cormorant with open wings and a lapwing 

Landing. Opening wings to stop and feet prepared for descent

The speculum characteristic which helps in the identification of ducks on the wing. In the yellow-billed teal a broad black stripe in the middle. a superior thin ochre stripe and an inferior thin whitish stripe

Walking with a swagger

Eating mulberry

A male eating a marbled swamp eel Synbranchus marmoratus.

Male eating mulberry

At lantana Lantana camara

The cormorant has caught a a marbled swamp eel Synbranchus marmoratus and other cormorants chase it to steal it. This behaviour is known as kleptoparasitism and it very common among cormorants. The benefit for the "thief" is to avoid searching and hunting the prey. The cormorant tries to steal but it can not

We guess right away who the chick is by the nervous movement of the wings to claim for food.

Voice

The reason for the name. A detail not frequently seen

Already getting dark two striped owls flew from inside the reserve to the tipu trees outside in the street

Looking for snails

Resting on the mound?

Resting on the mound?

In the area of games at Viamonte end

As dessert a mulberry

Two males and a female

Some time ago we could not find a single one of these gallinules. Today there are big groups in the Gull Pond

The chick peeping out of the hole

We had not seen a picui ground dove for six months

Eating seeds of hairy Indian mallow Abutilon grandifolium

Eating marble swamp eel Synbranchus marmoratus

Eating marble swamp eel Synbranchus marmoratus

Eating marble swamp eel Synbranchus marmoratus

It is common to see them wander about the foodstands outside. Here with a piece of grease

Adult and juvenile

Eating mulberry