News - September 2017
Insects and spiders
The prey, Arachosia sp.
Attack of Southern Caracaras against coot
Southern Caracara
Caracara plancus
17-08-17 © Eduardo Ibarra
In the first attack four caracaras pounced on the coot, which defends itself by diving. Since the caracaras can not capture the prey they fly away and only two caracaras make other atempts. But the coot manages to evade them and leave with the triumphal flap
Known as pill bug for looking like a pill when it rolls up when it is bothered. It is not an insect, but a terrestrial crustacean. It lives in humid places like rockes, fallen leaves or trunks. It feeds on decaying stuff, plant material or else.
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium brasilianum 19-9-17 © RAP Impossible to find it |
New views of the ponds ![]() ![]() |
Bird Survey organized by the COARECS - September 16th, 2017 |
After serveral wweekends with bad weather the survey was carried out in a sunny and nice day. The provisional result is 111 species till midday. |
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Lizard Path in winter ![]() |
Nest building
Yellow-billed Teal
Anas flavirostris
02-09-17 © Cora Rimoldi
Another family at Canal Viamonte
Last photos of August
They belong in the Class Arachnida. They look like scorpions, but they lack the stinging tail. Through it scorpions inject venom. Pseudoscorpions, instead, use the pedipalps, the two appendiges which extend from the prosoma (anterior region of the body) . They feed on mites, springtails, dipterans, booklice, larvae of different species
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