Birds of the Pampas Plain

                  for Jorge Martín Spinuzza

 

Ciconiiformes

     CICONIIDAE

Storks. Herons seem bigger and robust. Flight with his neck stretched. The three species are found in the Argentine Plain Pampena. Beak long and thick. Feet long. Fingers not webbed. They usually nest in colonies. Observers in lakes, estuaries and even fields.

    They feed on fish, batrachians, reptiles and small mammals.