Aves Argentinas presented a documentary on the Maca Tobiano (Hooded Grebe – odiceps gallardoi), a critically endangered species that breeds on a few basaltic lakes in the interior of Santa Cruz Southern Patagonia.
The principal threats to the endemic species appear to be climate change and the introduction of salmon and trout to private lakes and the new arrival of the American Mink Neovison vison on the Buenos Aires plateau, who killed more than half the adults in a breeding colony of two dozen nests last year.
The movie features Ricardo Darín as the narrator. One of Argentina’s most renowned talents, he Darin had the leading role on the Academy Award winning movie “The Secret in her Eyes”. The documentary’s music was written by the Academy Award Winner Gustavo Santaolalla, another Argentine credit.
For more information, please check Aves Argentinas’ site. (www.avesargentinas.org.ar/)</p>
Did you know? The Pantanal
Did you know that the Pantanal has the greatest concentration of wildlife in America? Split between Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil, it is the largest wetland in the World, 20 times bigger than the Florida Everglades. The Jabiru mycteria, the iconic bird of the Pantanal has a wingspan of over 6ft and is one of the 650 bird species, a fifth of the world total. It also has over 500 fish species, way over the total fish species in Europe (around 200).
