Birds of the Pampas Plain

                  for Jorge Martín Spinuzza

 

                   Pelecaniformes


PELECANIDAE                               FAMILY DID NOT PAMPEANA

A single species in South America, recorded recently in our country. Seabirds are enormous, with large peak with a gular sac using elastic as to retain the bag of fish that feed.
The feet have four toes webbed.

They feed on fish caught from the air diving. Nest in colonies.
 


ARDEIDAE

Herons and Mirasol. They are birds palustres, long-necked leading collected in the form of "S" to fly. Flight slow. Beak long and sharp. Legs and long fingers, not webbed. Alas wide and big. Gregaria, most nest in colonies. Of the 15 species of Argentina, 10 of them can find the gaps in pampeanas   

They feed on fish, batrachians, reptiles, insects and small mammals. Nest in trees, shrubs, rushes or on the floor


  THRESKIORNITHIDAE

 Ibis and Spoonbill. Recall herons. Minors. Gregarious flight with his neck stretched out, sometimes in flocks with V-shaped. Neck and long legs. Beak thin, long and curved. Feet not webbed. 

    They feed on insects, worms, batrachians, snails, grains and seeds