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JPMayers
1974
Camplist
17
11 August
10 km NW of Malbran by road, Provincia de Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Thick second growth chaco scrub, with low trees and many dense juniper-like bushes.
Dry powder soil, cemented together by rain + sun to a hard tablet. Foxes. Daily
water but not within walking distance
Tinamou
Phalacrocorax olivaceus
Rhyacryptes lanceola
Coccorola swan
Stigmatum budytoris
Leptofila versauxi
Eucarthisma meloryphus
Columba maculosa
Phytoma rubia
Myiopsitta monachus
Proglodytes aedon
Dendrocoris mixtus
Minius triurus
Athene braei
Poliapila dunicola
Fornax rufus
Ainophila strigiceps
Fornax cristatus
Zonotrichia capensis
Cinacleuca pyrrhophia
Saltator coeruleus
Leptasthenura platensis
Saltatricula multicolor
Poospiga torquata
Coryphosphingus cucullatus
13 August
40 km NW of Victoria by road, Provincia de Entre Rios, Argentina
Very open grasslands bordering a swamp formed by back water of Rio Parana. Grassy
sheet, and near the water line, cinnabar where the water once covered but has now receded, there
are occasional salt encrustations. Shore edge well trampled by cows. A few eucalyptus trees
and several batalis of often 30+ trees, plus 5 solitary trees near the high
water line, app. unknown. The water has considerable emergent vegetation, mostly grasses,
for the first several hundred meters, there is then a large channel of clear water.
Podiceps major
Chauna torquata
Anas versicolor
Ardea cocoi
Anser georgica
Polyborus plancus
Nycticorax nycticorax
Anas platula
M. Viago chlamygo
Plegadis chihi
Netta peposaca
Folco sparvijus