News - October 2012

October 07, 2012 23:14

Picture of all birds of October 2012
Unicolored Blackbird F	Unicolored Blackbird M	House Wren	Speckled Teal	Guira cuckoo
Yellow-winged Blackbird F	Rufous-bellied Thrush	Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl	Monk Parakeet	Chestnut-capped Blackbird M
Great Kiskadee	Bran-colored Flycatcher	Great Egret	Rufous-collared Sparrow	Small-billed Elaenia
Chalk-browed Mockingbird	White-crested Tyrannulet	Picazuro Pigeon	Rufescent Tiger-Heron	Creamy-bellied Thrush
Southern-crested Caracara	Roadside Hawk	Masked Gnatcatcher F	Glittering-bellied Emerald F	Masked Gnatcatcher M
Hooded Siskin M	Sayaca Tanager	Saffron YellowFinch M	Rufous Hornero	Checkered Woodpecker F
Hepatic Tanager M	House Sparrow M	European Starling	Hooded Siskin F	Sooty-fronted Spinetail
Cocoi Heron	Bay-winged Cowbird	Green-barred Woodpecker F	Golden-crowned Warbler	Gilded Sapphire
Epaulet Oriole	Tropical Kingbird	Vermilion Flycatcher M	Brown-chested Martin	Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finch
Screaming Cowbird	Shiny Cowbird M	Shiny Cowbird F	Eared Dove	Pied Water-Tyrant
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper	Red-eyed Vireo	Freckle-breasted Thornbird	Yellow-browed Tyrant	White-rumped Swallow
Snowy Egret	American Kestrel M	Long-winged Harrier	Harris's Hawk	Yellow-winged Blackbird M
Blue-and-yellow Tanager M	Bare-faced Ibis	Wattled Jacana	Black-hooded Parakeet	Green-winged Saltator
Black-capped Warbling- Finch	Neotropic Cormorant	White-lined Tanager M	Glittering-bellied Emerald M	Spectacled Tyrant F
Saffron YellowFinch F	Golden-billed Saltator	Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant	Yellow-billed Cardinal	Streaked Flycatcher
Double-collared Seedeater M	Campo Troupial	Dark-billed Cuckoo	Tropical Parula	Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Solitary Black Cacique	Checkered Woodpecker M	Great Pampa-Finch	Maked Yellowthroat M	Red-crested Cardinal

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Zonotrichia capensis

27-10-12 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Checkered Woodpecker

Veniliornis mixtus

27-10-12 © Juan Pablo Muszkats

Building the nest in a natural hole of a tree. Its bill is dirty with chips

Chalk-browed Mockingbird

Mimus saturninus

21-10-12 © Juan Pablo Muszkats

Near the water tank at the Viamonte entrance we saw a tegu lizard and two mockingbirds, which kept harrassing and pecking at the lizard's tail. The mockingbirds were quite convincing and the lizard sneaked away.

Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant

Euscarthmus meloryphus

20-10-12 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Dark-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus melacoryphus

20-10-12 © Pablo Serur

Streaked Flycatcher

Myiodynastes maculatus

20-10-12 © Pablo Serur

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Tyrannus savana

20-10-12 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Campo Troupial

Icterus jamacaii

20-10-12 © Pablo Serur

Tropical Parula

Setophaga pitiayumi

20-10-12 © Pablo Serur

Glittering-bellied Emerald

Chlorostilbon lucidus

14-10-12 © Carlos González Ledo

Urutu pit viper

Bothrops alternatus

14-10-12 © Carlos González Ledo

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Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant

Euscarthmus meloryphus

14-10-12 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro

Monk Parakeet

Myiopsitta monachus

14-10-12 © Carlos González Ledo

The parakeet does not only hold the fruit with the foot but it also takes to the mouth

Wattled Jacana

Jacana jacana

13-10-12 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Bare-faced Ibis

Phimosus infuscatus

13-10-12 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Neotropic Cormorant

Phalacrocorax brasilianus

14-10-12 © Carlos González Ledo

Rufous-bellied Thrush

Turdus rufiventris

13-10-12 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro

Cocoi Heron

Ardea cocoi

13-10-12 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Screaming Cowbird

Molothrus rufoaxillaris

10-10-12 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Red-eyed Vireo

Vireo olivaceus

13-10-12 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro

Great Kiskadee

Pitangus sulphuratus

13-10-12 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro

Two trips with a piece of bread each to feed the chicks? Quite unusual food

Vermilion Flycatcher

Pyrocephalus rubinus

Freckle-breasted Thornbird

Phacellodomus striaticollis

White-rumped Swallow

Tachycineta leucorrhoa

American Kestrel

Falco sparverius

Rufous Hornero

Furnarius rufus

Green-winged Saltator

Saltator similis

Black-backed Water-Tyrant

Fluvicola albiventer

Two new plant species
Lavander trumpet vine Bignonia callistegioides	Blue Heliotrope Monteiroa glomerata
Replacing exotic with native species is a task systematically being carried out at the reserve. Along the paths stakes may be seen with young plants tied to them. These are raised from seeds or cuttings in the nursery. When time comes they are planted either by the personnel or those who join planting activities open to public. The blue heliotrope and the lavander trumpet vine were brought to be introduced into the reserve. These are native plants which were part of the flora of this area and in this way it may be recovered.

Bran-colored Flycatcher

Myiophobus fasciatus

Unicolored Blackbird

Agelasticus cyanopus

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

Glaucidium brasilianum

With a mouse with its tail dangling