News - September 2014
| Summer birds With the arrival of the Vermilion Flycatcher comes the list of Summer Birds. And the Cliff Swallow has also been added to the list as it is a boreal migrant |
Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant
Euscarthmus meloryphus
02-10-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Seeing through one's ears. The importance of knowing the songs of birds
Diademed Tanager
Stephanophorus diadematus
02-10-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Silverdrop
Epargyreus tmoli
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Oily lazy
Actinote mamita
07-09-14 © Ignacio Agudelo
Soldier
Danaus eresimus plexaure
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
20-09-14 © Victoria Mansilla
Chilean lady
Vanessa carye
20-09-14 © Victoria Mansilla
Orcus checkered skipper
Pyrgus orcus
18-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Common Lazy
Actinote pellenea
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Fiery skipper
Hylephila phyleus
16-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Ithra crescent
Ortilia ithra
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Southern Monarch
Danaus erippus
19-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Warbling Doradito
Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris
27-09-14 © Elsa y Guillermo Marcaida
More nests
Masked Gnatcatcher
Polioptila dumicola
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Male in nest
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Female in nest
27-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
European Starling
Sturnus vulgaris
24-09-14 © Nicolás Giorgio
Great Kiskadee
Pitangus sulphuratus
27-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Green-barred Woodpecker
Colaptes melanochloros
26-09-14 © Elsa y Guillermo Marcaida
Female
Checkered Woodpecker
Veniliornis mixtus
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Male
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Black-capped Warbling-Finch
Poospiza melanoleuca
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Female carrying material
Rufous-bellied Thrush
Turdus rufiventris
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Carrying material
Rufous-bellied Thrush
Turdus rufiventris
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Carrying material
Straneck's Tyrannulet
Serpophaga griseicapilla
27-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper
Lepidocolaptes angustirostris
13-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
White-tipped Dove
Leptotila verreauxi
26-09-14 © Elsa y Guillermo Marcaida
Great Egret
Ardea alba
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Diademed Tanager
Stephanophorus diadematus
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Black-backed Water-Tyrant
Fluvicola albiventer
25-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Hepatic Tanager
Piranga flava
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Roadside Hawk
Rupornis magnirostris
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Juvenile
Rufous Hornero
Furnarius rufus
20-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
27-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Checkered Woodpecker
Veniliornis mixtus
24-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Male taking away feces
Snowy Egret
Egretta thula
20-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Camptostoma obsoletum
23-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
23-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Black-backed Water-Tyrant
Fluvicola albiventer
21-09-14 © Eduardo Carreyra
Grey-throated Warbling-Finch
Poospiza cabanisi
20-09-14 © Victoria Mansilla
House Wren
Troglodytes aedon
19-09-14 © Victoria Mansilla
Masked Yellowthroat
Geothlypis aequinoctialis
19-09-14 © Rodolfo Pani
Great Grebe
Podiceps major
20-09-14 © Victoria Mansilla
Yellow-browed Tyrant
Satrapa icterophrys
19-09-14 © Rodolfo Pani
Cattle Tyrant
Machetornis rixosa
20-09-14 © Pablo Serur
20-09-14 © Pablo Serur
Freckle-breasted Thornbird
Phacellodomus striaticollis
20-09-14 © Silvia Loiacono
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Glaucidium brasilianum
18-09-14 © Nicolás Giorgio
Limpkin
Aramus guarauna
18-09-14 © Nicolás Giorgio
Gray-breasted Martin
Progne chalybea
18-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Great Kiskadee
Pitangus sulphuratus
18-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Predators and/or pollinators fo the water yellow flag?
Scrub Blackbird
Dives warszewiczi
13-09-14 © Flor A Modeo
Rummaging water yellow flag
13-09-14 © Flor Flor
During my visit I saw a Scrub Blackbird which seemed to be eating yellow flag. He did it very delicately since it put it head into the flower and then out of it. A while after the blackbird had left the yellow flag, a Golden-billed Saltator stood on the same plant and, unlike the blackbird, the saltator began to tear it apart conscientiously so that no petal was left
Golden-billed Saltator
Saltator aurantiirostris
13-09-14 © Flor A Modeo
13-09-14 © Flor A Modeo
13-09-14 © Flor A Modeo
New moth species
Geometrid moth
Scordylia quadruplicaria
17-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
17-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
17-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Easily confused with a butterfly due to its colouring
House Wren
Troglodytes aedon
19-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Dust bath
Picui Ground Dove
Columbina picui
18-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
There was a fourth individual which flew away
Campo Flicker
Colaptes campestris
18-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
| Banana plant Musa paradisiaca  © Nicolás Giorgio |
New bird species
Cliff Swallow
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
16-10-13 © Luis G. Pagano
Seen on the coast of the river
| Chinese wisteria Wisteria sinensis  Climbing the pergola of the promenade  And on the Lizard Path© Nicolás Giorgio |
Red-and-white Crake
Laterallus leucopyrrhus
17-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Thanks to Fernando Mollo's excellent eyesight, we were able to see this crake at RECS on Wednesday. As we know too many observers are looking for it we spread the news quickly . It was behind the restroom area at Brasil Access.
Syma sister
Adelpha syma
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Dichrous skipper
Theagenes dichrous
10-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
False common white
Theochila maenacte
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
07-09-14 © Victoria Mansilla
Lyssipoides metalmark
Riodina lyssipoides
07-09-14 © Ignacio Agudelo
Southamerican lady
Vanessa braziliensis
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Gulf fritillary
Agraulis vanillae maculosa
10-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Mexican silverspot
Dione moneta
13-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Small skipper
Viola minor
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Common yellow
Eurema deva
12-09-14 © Gustavo F. Brahamian
Lesbia sulphur
Colias lesbia
10-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Claudina crescent
Tegosa claudina
10-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Bella mapwing
Hypanartia bella
04-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
| Clivia Clivia miniata  Exotic plant from Southern Africa. © J. Simón Tagtachian |
| Pink sorrel Oxalis articulata  Native. Sprawling plant.© J. Simón Tagtachian |
New bird species
Bank Swallow
Riparia riparia
13-09-14 © Luis G. Pagano
13-09-14 © Luis G. Pagano
This swallow is a boreal migrant. It comes to the south to spend summer and goes back to the Northern Hemisphere to breed.
It looks like the brown-chested martin but it is smaller. Its tail is relatively short and barely forked, tail undercoverts are long and the collar is very wide laterally. It does not vocalize while on flight. This individual was flying among white-rumped swallows Tachycineta leucorrhoa and brown-chested martins Progne tapera. They were rather high and far.
Anhinga
Anhinga anhinga
13-09-14 © Luis G. Pagano
Snail Kite
Rostrhamus sociabilis
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
White-eyed Parakeet
Psittacara leucophtalmus
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
There were two parakeets
Brown-chested Martin
Progne tapera
12-09-14 © Cora Rimoldi
Blue-and-white Swallow
Pygochelidon cyanoleuca
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Plumbeous Rail
Pardirallus sanguinolentus
11-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Green-barred Woodpecker
Colaptes melanochloros
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Female
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Female
Rosy-billed Pochard
Netta peposaca
12-09-14 © Judith Erica Sandberg
Southern Caracara
Caracara plancus
14-09-14 © Judith Erica Sandberg
The caracara was walking very unconcernedly. All of a sudden he stopped and leapt ot one side to catch a prey, or it was there beforehand. I do not know. It seemed to be a pigeon. Feathers kept flying ceaselessly
Rosy-billed Pochard
Netta peposaca
12-09-14 © Judith Erica Sandberg
Chalk-browed Mockingbird
Mimus saturninus
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Eating fruit of white cedar Melia azederach.
Bran-colored Flycatcher
Myiophobus fasciatus
12-09-14 © Judith Erica Sandberg
The first record was on Friday. We heard it, looked for it and found it.
Coypu
Myocastor coypus
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Two details: the conical tail and the interdigital membrane which connects four of the five fingers of the rear leg.
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Brotogeris chiriri
13-09-14 © José Luis Fernández Guaraz
13-09-14 © Cora Rimoldi
Eating its favourite dish, seeds from silk floss tree fruits Chorisia speciosa
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna viduata
13-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Family with 10 ducklings
European Starling
Sturnus vulgaris
07-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Vocalization
Bran-colored Flycatcher
Myiophobus fasciatus
12-09-14 © Judith Erica Sandberg
The first record was on Friday. We heard it, looked for it and found it.
13-09-14 © Elsa y Guillermo Marcaida
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podiceps
13-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
At Canal Viamonte
Green-barred Woodpecker
Colaptes melanochloros
13-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Eating loquats
A plant which though it is exotic is frequently visited by birds and insects. So it is a must to stop and wait both when it is in bloom or with fruit.
Golden-billed Saltator
Saltator aurantiirostris
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
White-lined Tanager
Tachyphonus rufus
13-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Female eating loquat Eriobotrya japonica
Rufous-bellied Thrush
Turdus rufiventris
13-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Eating loquat
Chalk-browed Mockingbird
Mimus saturninus
13-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Eating loquat
| On Friday's visit the Grey-breasted Martin and the Bran-coloured Flycatcher were also seen. |
White-rumped Swallow
Tachycineta leucorrhoa
12-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Long-tailed Reed Finch
Donacospiza albifrons
09-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Warbling Doradito
Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris
09-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Picui Ground Dove
Columbina picui
12-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Glittering-bellied Emerald
Chlorostilbon lucidus
12-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Gilded Hummingbird
Hylocharis chrysura
10-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Great Pampa-Finch
Embernagra platensis
07-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
White-lined Tanager
Tachyphonus rufus
06-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Yellow-winged Blackbird
Agelasticus thilius
10-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolor
12-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Great Grebe
Podiceps major
06-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Southern Caracara
Caracara plancus
11-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
| Diego Bastías saw Small Elaenia, Red-crested Finch and Suiriri Flycatcher. |
Black-necked Swan
Cygnus melancoryphus
11-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Stayed a bit at the Coypu Pond
Brown-chested Martin
Progne tapera
10-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Black-capped Warbling-Finch
Poospiza melanoleuca
10-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
European Starling
Sturnus vulgaris
10-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Female in nest
Limpkin
Aramus guarauna
10-09-14 © Elsa y Guillermo Marcaida
6 or 7 individuals were counted
| Laura Dodyk saw a Nacunda Nighthawk Chordeiles nacunda on the Aliso Path near the antenna. Unluckily she carried no camera. |
Striped Owl
Asio clamator
07-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Vermilion Flycatcher
Pyrocephalus rubinus
30-08-14 © Hernán Tolosa
With this photo of 31st of August antedates the first record of this season in two days.
Coscoroba Swan
Coscoroba coscoroba
07-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Yellow Cardinal
Gubernatrix cristata
07-09-14 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro
Eating and singing
Masked Yellowthroat
Geothlypis aequinoctialis
08-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Spot-winged Pigeon
Patagioenas maculosa
07-09-14 © Ignacio Agudelo
White-barred Piculet
Picumnus cirratus
07-09-14 © Ignacio Agudelo
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Glaucidium brasilianum
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Bare-faced Ibis
Phimosus infuscatus
02-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
White-faced Ibis
Plegadis chihi
02-09-14 © Gustavo F. Brahamian
02-09-14 © Gustavo F. Brahamian
Green-backed Becard
Pachyramphus viridis
07-09-14 © Victoria Mansilla
Yellow Cardinal
Gubernatrix cristata
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Scarlet-headed Blackbird
Amblyramphus holosericeus
06-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
White-banded Mockingbird
Mimus triurus
04-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Rufous Hornero
Furnarius rufus
07-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
White-tufted Grebe
Rollandia rolland
07-09-14 © Silvia Loiacono
Striped Owl
Pseudoscops clamator
07-09-14 © Federico Andrés De Maio
07-09-14 © Dolores Fernández
Spotted by Ignacio in the Middle Path
Scrub Blackbird
Dives warszewiczi
07-09-14 © Dolores Fernández
Southern Lapwing
Vanellus chilensis
06-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
06-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
White-tipped Dove
Leptotila verreauxi
06-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Whistling Heron
Syrigma sibilatrix
02-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
White-rumped Swallow
Tachycineta leucorrhoa
04-09-14 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Scrub Blackbird
Dives warszewiczi
04-09-14 © Nicolás Giorgio
White-banded Mockingbird
Mimus triurus
04-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Yellow-browed Tyrant
Satrapa icterophrys
04-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
Limpkin
Aramus guarauna
04-09-14 © Sergio Cusano
02-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Grayish Saltator
Saltator coerulescens
04-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Green-winged Saltator
Saltator similis
04-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Rusty-collared Seedeater
Sporophila collaris
04-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Double-collared Seedeater
Sporophila caerulescens
04-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Coypu
Myocastor coypus
03-09-14 © Hugo Aguilar
Now there are four
Removing the last foodstand  © Sergio Cusano © Sergio Cusano |
Yellow-billed Teal
Anas flavirostris
04-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
Family of 10 ducklings
Vermilion Flycatcher
Pyrocephalus rubinus
03-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
03-09-14 © Claudia y Diego Bastías
