Trip Report: Brazil (2011-07-13 - 2011-07-26)
Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
Tropical Screech-Owl (Otus choliba)
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura)
Black-throated Saltator (Saltatricula atricollis)
Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria)
Yacare Caiman (Caiman yacare)
Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)
Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)
Thrush-like Wren (Campylorhynchus turdinus)
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)
Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) in Love
Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata)
Greyish Saltator (Saltator coerulescens)
Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
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Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
Tropical Screech-Owl (Otus choliba)
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura)
Black-throated Saltator (Saltatricula atricollis)
Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria)
Yacare Caiman (Caiman yacare)
Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)
Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)
Thrush-like Wren (Campylorhynchus turdinus)
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)
Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) in Love
Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata)
Greyish Saltator (Saltator coerulescens)
Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
Two-week trip to Brazil with stops in the Pantanal and the Atlantic Coast near Salvador.
Sites Visited
Country: Brazil
(5 sites)
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (198 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(1 record)
Class: Insects
(1 record)
- Order: Butterflies and Moths
(1 record)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Pale Owl Butterfly (Caligo telamonius)
Phylum: Chordates
(197 records)
Class: Birds
(181 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(4 records)
- Family: Screamers
- Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis)
- Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
- White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(5 records)
- Family: Finfoots
- Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica)
- Family: Limpkin
- Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Gray-cowled Wood-Rail (Aramides cajaneus)
- Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)
- Family: Sunbitterns
- Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias)
- Order: Cuckoos
(5 records)
- Family: Anis
- Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira)
- Family: Cuckoos
- Common Squirrel-Cuckoo (Piaya cayana)
- Greater Ani (Crotophaga major)
- Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta)
- Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(8 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Common Ground Dove (Columbina passerina)
- Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis)
- Picazuro Pigeon (Patagioenas picazuro)
- Picui Ground Dove (Columbina picui)
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- Ruddy Ground Dove (Columbina talpacoti)
- Scaled Pigeon (Patagioenas speciosa)
- White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi)
- Order: Gabuliformes
(2 records)
- Family: Jacamars
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
- Family: Puffbirds
- Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(7 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
- Crane Hawk (Geranospiza caerulescens)
- Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris)
- Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis)
- Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)
- Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
- White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (4 records)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (5 records)
- Order: Owls And Nightjars
(7 records)
- Family: Nighthawks and Nightjars
- Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis)
- Nacunda Nighthawk (Chordeiles nacunda)
- Scissor-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata)
- Family: Potoos
- Great Potoo (Nyctibius grandis)
- Family: Typical Owls
- Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
- Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
- Tropical Screech-Owl (Megascops choliba)
- Order: Parrots
(8 records)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Blue-headed Parrot (Pionus menstruus)
- Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)
- Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
- Peach-fronted Parakeet (Eupsittula aurea)
- Scaly-headed Parrot (Pionus maximiliani)
- Turquoise-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva)
- White-eyed Parakeet (Psittacara leucophthalmus)
- Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri)
- Order: Pelicans
(24 records)
- Family: Anhingas
- Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
- Family: Cormorants
- Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus)
- Yellow-headed Caracara (Daptrius chimachima)
- Family: Frigatebirds
- Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)
- Family: Herons
- Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)
- Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Rufescent Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Striated Heron (Butorides striata)
- Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Bare-faced Ibis (Phimosus infuscatus)
- Buff-necked Ibis (Theristicus caudatus)
- Green Ibis (Mesembrinibis cayennensis)
- Plumbeous Ibis (Theristicus caerulescens)
- Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
- Family: Jacanas
- Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
- Family: Storks
- Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria)
- Maguari Stork (Ciconia maguari)
- Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)
- Order: Perching Birds
(81 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus)
- Giant Cowbird (Molothrus oryzivorus)
- Grayish Baywing (Agelaioides badius)
- Orange-backed Troupial (Icterus croconotus)
- Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous)
- Screaming Cowbird (Molothrus rufoaxillaris)
- Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis)
- Unicolored Blackbird (Agelasticus cyanopus)
- Variable Oriole (Icterus pyrrhopterus)
- Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela)
- Family: Bananaquit
- Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
- Family: Cardinals and Allies
- Black-throated Saltator (Saltatricula atricollis)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Chopi Blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi)
- Scarlet-headed Blackbird (Amblyramphus holosericeus)
- Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch (Emberizoides herbicola)
- Yellow-backed Tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis)
- Family: Donacobius
- Black-capped Donacobius (Donacobius atricapilla)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Purplish Jay (Cyanocorax cyanomelas)
- Family: Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies
- Chalk-browed Mockingbird (Mimus saturninus)
- Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Grassland Sparrow (Ammodramus humeralis)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Buff-throated Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus guttatus)
- Narrow-billed Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes angustirostris)
- Rufous Hornero (Furnarius rufus)
- Rusty-backed Spinetail (Cranioleuca vulpina)
- Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
- Streaked Xenops (Xenops rutilans)
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper (Glyphorynchus spirurus)
- Family: Swallows
- Brown-chested Martin (Progne tapera)
- Gray-breasted Martin (Progne chalybea)
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis)
- White-winged Swallow (Tachycineta albiventer)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
- Bluish-gray Saltator (Saltator coerulescens)
- Buff-throated Saltator (Saltator maximus)
- Flame-crested Tanager (Loriotus cristatus)
- Gray-headed Tanager (Eucometis penicillata)
- Green-headed Tanager (Tangara seledon)
- Marsh Seedeater (Sporophila palustris)
- Palm Tanager (Thraupis palmarum)
- Red-cowled Cardinal (Paroaria dominicana)
- Rusty-collared Seedeater (Sporophila collaris)
- Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola)
- Sayaca Tanager (Thraupis sayaca)
- Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo)
- Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis)
- Violaceous Euphonia (Euphonia violacea)
- White-bellied Tanager (Tangara brasiliensis)
- White-lined Tanager (Tachyphonus rufus)
- Yellow-billed Cardinal (Paroaria capitata)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Creamy-bellied Thrush (Turdus amaurochalinus)
- Pale-breasted Thrush (Turdus leucomelas)
- Rufous-bellied Thrush (Turdus rufiventris)
- Family: Tityras and Allies
- Black-crowned Tityra (Tityra inquisitor)
- Family: Typical Antbirds
- Planalto Slaty-Antshrike (Thamnophilus pelzelni)
- White-flanked Antwren (Myrmotherula axillaris)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Black-backed Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola albiventer)
- Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)
- Cattle Tyrant (Machetornis rixosa)
- Common Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum)
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana)
- Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
- Lesser Elaenia (Elaenia chiriquensis)
- Lesser Kiskadee (Philohydor lictor)
- Masked Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola nengeta)
- Ochre-lored Flatbill (Tolmomyias flaviventris)
- Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer)
- Rufous-tailed Attila (Attila phoenicurus)
- Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)
- Swainson's Flycatcher (Myiarchus swainsoni)
- Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster)
- Family: Vireos
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike (Cyclarhis gujanensis)
- Family: Wrens
- Buff-breasted Wren (Cantorchilus leucotis)
- Moustached Wren (Pheugopedius genibarbis)
- Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus)
- Thrush-like Wren (Campylorhynchus turdinus)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(7 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)
- Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex)
- Yellow-billed Tern (Sternula superciliaris)
- Family: Plovers
- Collared Plover (Anarhynchus collaris)
- Pied Plover (Hoploxypterus cayanus)
- Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
- Order: Struthioniformes
(1 record)
- Family: Rheas
- Greater Rhea (Rhea americana)
- Order: Tinamiformes (2 records)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(3 records)
- Family: Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows
- Bare-faced Curassow (Crax fasciolata)
- Chaco Chachalaca (Ortalis canicollis)
- Family: Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
- Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus)
- Order: Vultures (3 records)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(5 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Little Woodpecker (Veniliornis passerinus)
- Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris)
- White-wedged Piculet (Picumnus albosquamatus)
Class: Mammals
(12 records)
- Order: Carnivorans
(4 records)
- Family: Canidae
- Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
- Family: Felidae
- Jaguar (Panthera onca)
- Family: Mustelids
- Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
- Family: Procyonidae
- South American Coati (Nasua nasua)
- Order: Even-toed Ungalates and Cetacean
(2 records)
- Family: Bovids
- Aurochs (Bos taurus)
- Family: Cervidae
- Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
- Order: Perissodactyla
(1 record)
- Family: Equidae
- Horse (Equus caballus)
- Order: Primates (4 records)
- Family: Marmosets and Tamarins
- Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
- Weid's Black-tufted-ear Marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii)
- Order: Rodents
(1 record)
- Family: Cavies
- Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
Class: Reptiles
(4 records)
- Order: Alligators and Crocodiles
(1 record)
- Family: Alligators
- Yacare Caiman (Caiman yacare)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes
(3 records)
- Family: Iguanas
- Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
- Family: Whiptails and Tegus
- Argentine Black-and-white Tegu (Salvator merianae)
- Green Jungle Runner (Pholidoscelis ameiva)