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About me   (Last update: August 2023) I started birding when I was 10 years old (I'm now 39), when I got my first field guide and binoculars. And I've been a nature lover since I have memory. Growing up in a small town of Buenos Aires province helped me develop my birding skills in the field. I have always loved identifying species (not only birds), and I have worked doing so in an institute of marine biology in Patagonia for several years. I wrote a field guide and identification key to the sharks and skates of the largest patagonian gulf, as well as an unpublished list of the fish of that area. I have also worked identifying mollusks and crustaceans of the same area, and worked as a biological catch sampler in fishing vessels of the Argentine Hake fishery. That was also a good training for pelagic birds, which I got to know well in those years. Years later I moved to Buenos Aires city and started working as a tour guide at the Argentine Museum of N
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Photo Gallery (Argentine species) Although I'm not a photographer I like carrying a "bridge" camera when I guide and, if I got time (because my priority is to show the birds to the people I guide), I try taking pictures to remember the birds and the great moments that we share while birding. I also like digiscoping with my phone through the spotting scope when possible.  Here are some pictures taken by me in some of my guiding trips within Argentina: Harpy Eagle digiscoped in north west Argentina  Upland Sandpiper in southern Entre Ríos  Diademed Tanager in Costanera Sur reserve (Buenos Aires) Masked Ducks in Costanera Sur reserve (Buenos Aires)  Stripe-backed Bittern "digiscoped" in Costanera Sur reserve (Buenos Aires) Black-headed Ducks in Costanera Sur reserve (Buenos Aires)  South American Painted Snipe in southern Entre Ríos  Saffron-cowled Blackbird in southern Entre Ríos  Ibera Seede