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Buenos Aires, Argentina 29 Sep-6 Oct 2009 |
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Kathryn Purdy and I went down to Buenos Aires for a week of vacation, and
though it wasn't a nature trip we did some birding in gardens around town
and the Ecologica Preserva, which is a huge wetland complex on the edge of
town. Unfortunately it was very dry in there when we were there, but we had fun anyway. Here
are the best bird shots from the trip... Shots from 2 Oct are from in town gardens (Botanical Garden, Japanese Garden, Park lakes, and zoo), shots from 4 Oct are from the Ecological Preserve. If you run your cursor over the image you can get the date. |
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Top row is signage for the Ecological Reserve. Three shots of the coastal part of the reserve, and lower right is a shot of the only wet area at the reserve right now. |
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White-tufted Grebe |
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Neotropic Cormorant | |
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Rosy-billed Pochard |
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Gray-necked Wood-Rail |
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Red-gartered Coot |
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White-winged Coot |
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Picazuro Pigeon Not really sure about the one at bottom right... |
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Eared Dove |
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Canary-winged Parakeet |
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Monk Parakeet |
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Black-hooded Parakeet | |
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Guira Cuckoo |
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Rufous Hornero |
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Golden-breasted Woodpecker |
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Narrow-billed Woodcreeper |
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Cattle Tyrant |
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Great Kiskadee | |
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White-rumped Swallow | |
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Masked Gnatcatcher |
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Rufous-bellied Thrush |
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Chalk-browed Mockingbird |
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Blue-and-yellow Tanager |
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Golden-billed Saltator |
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European Starling | |
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Red-crested Cardinal |
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Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finch |
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Rufous-collared Sparrow | |
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Chestnut-capped Blackbird | |
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Yellow-winged Blackbird |
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Shiny Cowbird |
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Bay-winged Cowbird |
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House Sparrow |
| Non-birds... | ||
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Guniea Pig | |
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A darner called Rhionaeschna bonariensis | |
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Unknown turtle | |
| A few at the zoo... | ||
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Snow Leopard. Hopelessly out of place and wrong but magnificent nonetheless. | |
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Jaguar. See above. | |
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Meerkat. | |
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Patagonian Cavy or Mara. A little like a bad science experiment! | |
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Nutria. | |
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