The southern screamers are breeding in the reserve, too

The southern screamers are breeding in the reserve, too

We were at the viewpoint and suddenly this male landed in a nearby branch. Attentive to preys the kingfisher dived into the water on three occasions and after lunch a conforting preening. He stayed quite a while

Three very upset individuals chased one another. They flew across the path back and forth vocalizing

With Dysschema sacrifica

They began to show

With Mexican silverspot on the right

Hovering and swooping down on the prey

From time to time we can find these darker individuals

A close-up of the deformed bill of the creamy-bellied thrush, which Sergio had already photographed

A big group reappeared in the Coypu Pond

With the lower maxilla recurved to one side

So looked like the mist at 9 am when I photographed the cocoi heron (left) and the black-crowned night-heron (right). 

At midday the mist had dissipated

Very early in the morning the guira cuckoos did not say a word

With a common gallinule swimming 

A huge size difference: 34 cm the common gallinule and 26 cm the spot-flanked gallinule

Male (right) and female (left). Differences are subtle and in guides male and female are not told apart. 

We could see birds flying around a freighter entering the port. There was something not common, very dark apart from terns and gulls. We followed the movements of this bird under the suspicion that this could be the skua. It was best seen when it flew at low height in a straight line followed by two cormorants. At that moment we could see the white spot on the base of the primaries. It turned and landed on the water and we lost sight of it.
Lui says it is difficult to determine the species since diagnostic characters are not seen. Though he believes it is the Brown Skua Stercorarius antarticus.

Female,, without red on the nape and plain brown crown

Male with a common gallinule

Taken at short range in the Coypu Pond. A clear image not common since they moved to the Gull and Duck Ponds

With fruit of white cedar Melia azederach

Adult and juvenile

Adults and juveniles

Early in the morning three fulvous whistling-ducks among a flock of about 80 white-faced whistling-ducks

Eating flower of morning glory Ipomoea cairica