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J P Myers
1973
Journal
Trans-chaco at Km 320 to Campo Flores, ~50 Km E of trans chaco
by road, Dept Boqueron Paraguay
Sept 4
The manager at Juan Zalagar had asked Phil + Martin to visit
Campo Flores, a victiro for Juan Zalagar, where 15 cattle had died
within the last few days of something looking like bovine rabies.
We drove out in Phil's car + Wayne + Martin's jeep along a road
which not too far from the t-chaco changed to a cowpath.
Trip took 3 hrs one way. Very strong WNE wind. temp warm.
No clouds but much dust in the air. Within the 1st ten
Km the road goes by an amazing amount of water, including
2 very healthy sized lakes, one over 1 km across.
Also numerous tajamayas. Collected 1 Wilson's phalerope near the
second lake). Then the water disappears, although the amount of
palm swamp (now dried) traversed suggests that at other times
of the year it is quite wet. The only other places where there
was any standing water seen there by intermediate retiros
where a lot of bulldozing had been done to make tajamayas
+ d reservoirs. We had planned on spending the night
at Campo Flores but the wind indicated that rain was
not too far off (as early as that night, probably within a day or
two) so we turned back. At C Flores I saw a few peeps
flying in the distance, one solitary, and 2 golden plovers on
the airstrip. That morning as we had stopped
at the headquarters at Juan Zalagar, and exactly where I
got the buffiris yesterday I got 2 white-rumps today. At CF
I spent most of my time preparing one, so few croo little opportunity
to explore the nearby large reservoir. On the way back
(left-CF at 330) we reached Cora-i, a large intermediate.