News - October 2015
The Month of the Birds has come. Let's gather all the birds possible for the Big Picture of this year | ||||
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and a lot more. One week to go and 127 species have been photographed |
24-10-15 © Amelia Besana
New mammal species
Lake Duck
Oxyura vittata
17-10-15 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Male preening
Masked Duck
Nomonyx dominicus
17-10-15 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Female playing with a bottle and male preening and diving.
Silver Teal
Spatula versicolor
17-10-20 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Family moving with great difficulty in a densely vegetated area. Then feeding.
Rufescent Tiger-Heron
Tigrisoma lineatum
17-10-15 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Two little herons taken from the distance
Coccinellids, except for a few species, are friendly to man. Friendly, not because they do not bite but because they are pest controllers. They predate on aphids, psyllids, mites, etc reducing drastically the damage these insects cause to crop plants. This ladybug Eriopis connexa serves this purpose. It is native and has shown to be very effective to control aphids which attack maize, soya, wheat and sorghum crops. That is why it has been studied quite thouroughly to know its potentialities to be applied accordingly.
Listen how this grebe communicates with another in the surroundings
17 10 15 © Dolores Fernández
17 10 15 © Dolores Fernández
10-10-15 © J. Simón Tagtachian
New bird species
The phyllostomyd turned out a molossid - Eumops sp.
From phyllostomyd to molossid - correction in the identification
Read more
Some voices
Photos are for illustrative purposes
© Carlos Ferrari
© Carlos Ferrari
© Carlos Ferrari
© Carlos Ferrari
© Carlos Ferrari
© Carlos Ferrari
© Carlos Ferrari
Limpkin
Aramus guarauna
03-10-15 © Cora Rimoldi