Southern lapwing (quero-quero) flying near Pampas fox (graxaim-do-campo)

Southern lapwing (quero-quero, Vanellus chinensis). You can see the spurs (esporões) on the top of the open wings.

Suddenly, this quero-quero decided to fly, and I had the luck to capture some unusual photographs. See below.

Southern lapwing (quero-quero) & Pampas fox (graxaim).

Southern lapwing (quero-quero) & Pampas fox (graxaim). Brazil, State of Rio Grande do Sul.

Southern lapwing (quero-quero) & Pampas fox (graxaim).
Both species were feeding on a recently harvested plot of soybeans.

Southern lapwing (quero-quero) & Pampas fox (graxaim).
On the top of the picture, you can see a crop of soybeans, ready to be harvested.

Pampas fox (graxaim-do-campo) II

Pampas fox (graxaim-do-campo) I

These fotos were taken yesterday (April 19, 2018) afternoon.

Two graxains were hunting.

They were roaming over a recently harvest soybeans field.

There are two species of wild canids in RS.

This one here, if I am not mistaken, seems to be the "graxaim-do-campo", or Lycalopex gymnocercus.

Here he or she stopped to eat something.

The wild canid bordered a soybeans plot that was not harvested yet.

Information about this species can be found here.

These pretty animals are well-adapted to the seasonal cycles of

agriculture and livestock practices and since there are native and planted forests around,

they also have a lot of places to hide themselves.

This blog explains how to distinguish the two species of graxaim.

White-faced ibis or caraúna

Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Medium Plateau Region.

A Canchim steer stands calmly beside a group of caraúnas.

This small pond near a Lolium multiflorum pasture

creates a microecosystem in which the Plegadis chihi finds a place to rest and feed.

In Brazilian Portuguese, this species has a plenty of common names:

caraúna, caraúna-da-cara-branca, curicaca, maçarico-preto, tapicuru,etc.

The white-faced ibis also occurs on North America.

Against the sun, their wing feathers show a beautiful, shining green.

This other caraúna is happily walking beside two "frangos d'água" (Gallinula galeata).