More news - August 2021
Coypu
Myocastor coypus
28-08-21 © Javier Guillermo González
Yellow pygmy rice rat
Oligoryzomys flavescens
28-08-21 © Javier Guillermo González
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Water level in the Coypu Pond
A dry summer and without pumping water the water level of the pond descended remarkably. At the end of June cleaning and maintenance work began and the pump came into operation. Since then water has been being injected and the aspect of the pond has changed once more. Since the Viamonte end is shallower than the Brasil's end the pond bed was exposed leaving a mudflat ideal for shorebirds, snipes, ibises, etc.. Now the water level is rising and the avifauna is changing.
 17-7-21 © Javier González
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 30-7-21 © Javier González
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 30-7-21 © Javier González
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 30-7-21 © Javier González
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 21-8-21 © Javier González
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At the Brasil end a new water measuring pole was set. It shows how the pond is being flooded. On July 10th it was at -45 and on August 14th, almost at -25.
 10-7-21 © Javier González
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 14-8-21 © Javier González
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Leaf beetle
Plagiodera erythroptera
12-08-21 © Gustavo F. Brahamian
12-08-21 © Gustavo F. Brahamian
Dichrous skipper
Theagenes dichrous
07-08-21 © Javier Guillermo González
White-eared opossum
Didelphis albiventris
06-08-21 © Liliana H. Rodríguez
Side-necked turtle
Phrynops hilarii
07-08-21 © Liliana H. Rodríguez
07-08-21 © Liliana H. Rodríguez
07-08-21 © Héctor Horacio García
07-08-21 © Héctor Horacio García
We were watching birds in the new viewpoint when this turtle climbed the viewpoint at one end and walked across it o descend to the pond at the other end
Painted turtle
Trachemys dorbigni
07-08-21 © Héctor Horacio García
Remus greenstreak
Cyanophrys remus
01-08-21 © Guillermo Costa
Number eighty
Diaethria candrena candrena
31-07-21 © Eduardo Nicolás Cusano
Mexican silverspot
Dione moneta
31-07-21 © Eduardo Nicolás Cusano
Gaudy sphinx
Eumorpha labruscae
06-12-20 © Carlos González Ledo
06-12-20 © Carlos González Ledo
06-12-20 © Carlos González Ledo
Coypu
Myocastor coypus
31-07-21 © Eduardo Nicolás Cusano
31-07-21 © Leonel Melvern
With red-fronted coot
Bella Vista toad
Rhinella fernandezae
31-07-21 © Marcelo Leanes
Urutu pit viper
Bothrops alternatus
17-07-21 © Javier Guillermo González
17-07-21 © Javier Guillermo González
17-07-21 © Javier Guillermo González
Painted turtle
Trachemys dorbigni
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Two painted turtels and a side-necked turtle behind
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Between two side-necked turtles
Side-necked turtle
Phrynops hilarii
24-07-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian