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.
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.
White-tufted Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Rosy-billed Pochard
Gray-necked Wood-Rail
Red-gartered Coot
White-winged Coot
Picazuro Pigeon
Not really sure about the one
at bottom right...
Eared Dove
Canary-winged Parakeet
Monk Parakeet
Black-hooded Parakeet
Guira Cuckoo
Rufous Hornero
Golden-breasted Woodpecker
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper
Cattle Tyrant
Great Kiskadee
White-rumped Swallow
Masked Gnatcatcher
Rufous-bellied Thrush
Chalk-browed Mockingbird
Blue-and-yellow Tanager
Golden-billed Saltator
European Starling
Red-crested Cardinal
Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finch
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Chestnut-capped Blackbird
Yellow-winged Blackbird
Shiny Cowbird
Bay-winged Cowbird
House Sparrow
Non-birds...
Guniea Pig
A darner called Rhionaeschna bonariensis
Unknown turtle
A few at the zoo...
Snow Leopard. Hopelessly out of place and wrong but
magnificent nonetheless.
Jaguar. See above.
Meerkat.
Patagonian Cavy or Mara. A little like a bad science
experiment!