Argentina 2013
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Black Jacobin
White-eyed Foliage-gleaner
Male Violaceous Euphonia
Southern Lapwing
Social Flycatcher
Sayaca Tanager
Portrait of Plush-crested Jay
Plush-crested Jay
Plush-crested Jay
Piratic Flycatcher
Blue-winged Parrotlet
Male Blond-crested Woodpecker
Black-fronted Piping Guan
Male Violet-capped Woodnymph
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
Gilded Sapphire
Male Black-throated Mango
Glittering Sapphire
Straight-line Suphur
Straight-line and Tailed Sulphurs
Sulphur butterflies puddling
Common Green-eyed and Florida Whites
Common Mimic White
Lysithous Swallowtail
Kite Swallowtail
Broad-banded Swallowtail
Male Androgeus Swallowtails
Red Peacock
Orange Mapwing
Orange Mapwing
Velica Crescent
Velica Crescent
Ithra Crescent
Dicoma Crescent
Apricot Crescent
Thessalia Sister
Thessalia Sister
Pink-banded Sister
Abia Sister
Abia Sister
Lenea Clearwing
Juno Longwing
Julia Butterfly
Southern Monarch
Tithia Sailor
Tithia Sailor
Pyrame Beauty
Orange Banner
Little Callicore
Little Callicore
Grey Cracker
Clymena 88
Candrena 88
Candrena 88
Male Turquoise Emperor
Male Agathina Emperor
Male Agathina Emperor
Southern Sicklewing Skipper
Dorantes Long-tail
Stingless Bee nest entrance
Grasshopper nymphs
Hairy Caterpillar
Western Collared Spiny Lizard
Black Capuchin Monkey
Brazilian Guinea Pig
Portrait of female Red Brocket Deer
At the end of a two week trip in Brazil, Julia and I added a three day extension to the N.E. corner of Argentina, principally to experience the amazing butterfly diversity around the famous Iguazu Falls, which lies on the border where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. Xavier Munoz of the Ecuadorian company ‘Neblina Forest’, who had been our guide in Brazil, had arranged for a young female Argentinian guide called Paula to meet us at the border and take us to Puerto Iguazu on the Argentinian side. In the next couple of days we visited Iguazu National Park, including the impressive waterfall, and Uragui Provincial Park. On the first afternoon we spent a productive couple of hours in a private garden dedicated to hummingbirds called Jardin de los Picaflores, set up by an enterprising lady called Mrs Costello in the town of Puerto Iguazu.