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Birds and 
Other Wildlife

during the 
Focus On Nature Tour 
in Brazil

in March 2009

including adjacent
BOLIVIA

 

Dates:

March 4-14, 2009


Codes: 

  
in Brazil:
sp:  Sao Paulo in southeast Brazil 
ms: Mato Grosso do Sul, from Campo Grande west to Corumba, mostly in the Pantanal  
mt:  Mato Grosso, mostly in the areas of Serra das Araras & Chapada das Guimaraes  

in Bolivia, west of Corumba, Brazil:  BL

(BRe):   Brazilian endemic 
(BRqe): Brazilian quasi- (or near-) endemic 
(BRi):    introduced species in Brazil

(t): a threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
  (t1): critical 
  (t2): endangered 
  (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally

(ph):  species with a photo in this FONTwebsite

Directory of Photos in this Website


UPPER RIGHT PHOTO: a JABIRU in Mato Grosso do Sul.
At one place during our Mar '09 tour, on a river island near Corumba, there were nearly 400 of these birds,
standing or walking on the island or circling about in the sky above.      


Links:

Cumulative List of Birds during our Brazil Tours:
Part 1  (Tinamous thru Flycatchers)
Part 2  (Antshrikes thru Grosbeaks)

In the above cumulative lists of birds, scientific names are given & subspecies are noted.

Rare & Threatened Birds of Brazil  (with photos)

Mammals & Other Wildlife during our Brazil Tours
(with photos)

A list of Mammals during our Brazil tour in March 2009 follows the bird-list below. 

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in Brazil


The following list compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the tour.

Bird-List:

  1. Undulated Tinamou _____  ms

  2. Red-winged Tinamou _____  mt

  3. Spotted Nothura _____  ms

  4. Greater Rhea (nt) _____  ms,mt

  5. Chaco Chachalaca _____  ms

  6. Rusty-margined Guan _____  ms

  7. Common Piping Guan _____  ms

  8. Bare-faced Curassow _____  ms

  9. Southern Screamer _____  ms

  10. White-faced Whistling Duck _____  ms

  11. Black-bellied Whistling Duck _____  ms

  12. Brazilian Teal _____  ms

  13. Muscovy Duck _____  ms

  14. Jabiru _____  ms

  15. Wood Stork _____  ms,mt

  16. Maguari Stork _____  ms

  17. Buff-necked Ibis _____  ms,mt

  18. Plumbeous Ibis _____  ms

  19. Bare-faced Ibis _____  ms

  20. Green Ibis _____  ms

  21. Roseate Spoonbill _____  ms

  22. Striated Heron _____  ms

  23. Cocoi Heron _____  ms

  24. Capped Heron _____  mt 

  25. Whistling Heron _____  ms

  26. Western Cattle Egret _____  ms 

  27. Little Blue Heron _____  ms

  28. Snowy Egret _____  ms,mt

  29. Great Egret _____  ms

  30. Rufescent Tiger-Heron _____  ms

  31. Black-crowned Night Heron _____  ms

  32. Neotropic Cormorant _____  ms,mt  BL

  33. Anhinga _____  ms,mt 

  34. Black Vulture _____  sp,ms,mt 

  35. Turkey Vulture _____  ms,mt  BL

  36. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture _____  ms

  37. Southern Crested Caracara _____  ms,mt  BL 

  38. Yellow-headed Caracara _____  ms,mt 

  39. Barred Forest-Falcon _____  mt

  40. American Kestrel _____  ms,mt  BL

  41. Aplomado Falcon _____  mt

  42. Osprey _____  ms.mt  BL

  43. Swallow-tailed Kite _____  mt

  44. Pearl Kite _____  mt 

  45. Snail Kite _____  ms

  46. Long-winged Harrier _____  ms

  47. Crane Hawk _____  ms  

  48. Great Black Hawk _____  ms

  49. Savanna Hawk _____  ms,mt

  50. Black-collared Hawk _____  ms

  51. Roadside Hawk _____  ms,mt  BL

  52. White-tailed Hawk _____  ms

  53. Harpy Eagle (nt) _____  mt (adult at a nest)

  54. Red-legged Seriema _____  ms,mt

  55. Rufous-sided Crake _____  ms 

  56. Gray-necked Wood Rail _____  ms,mt 

  57. Purple Gallinule _____  ms 

  58. Limpkin _____  ms

  59. Wattled Jacana _____  ms,mt

  60. White-backed Stilt _____  ms

  61. Southern Lapwing  _____   sp,ms,mt 

  62. Collared Plover _____  ms 

  63. Solitary Sandpiper _____  ms,mt

  64. Spotted Sandpiper _____  ms

  65. Large-billed Tern _____  ms 

  66. Picazuro Pigeon _____  sp,ms

  67. Pale-vented Pigeon _____  mt

  68. Plumbeous Pigeon _____  mt

  69. Common (or Feral) Pigeon (BRi) _____  ms,mt  BL

  70. Ruddy Ground-Dove _____  sp,ms,mt  BL

  71. Plain-breasted Ground Dove _____  ms,mt

  72. Picui Ground-Dove _____  ms  BL

  73. Long-tailed Ground Dove _____  ms

  74. Scaled Dove _____  ms,mt  BL

  75. White-tipped Dove _____  ms,mt  BL

  76. Hyacinth Macaw (t2) _____  ms  

  77. Blue-and-yellow Macaw _____  ms

  78. Red-and-green Macaw _____  mt 

  79. Golden-collared Macaw _____  ms

  80. Red-shouldered Macaw _____  mt

  81. White-eyed Parakeet _____  ms,mt

  82. Peach-fronted Parakeet _____  ms,mt

  83. Nanday (or Black-hooded) Parakeet _____  ms 

  84. Monk Parakeet _____  ms  BL

  85. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet _____  ms,mt

  86. Turquoise-fronted Amazon _____  ms

  87. Smooth-billed Ani _____  ms,mt  BL

  88. Greater Ani _____  ms 

  89. Squirrel Cuckoo _____  mt

  90. Striped Cuckoo _____  ms

  91. Guira Cuckoo _____  ms,mt  BL

  92. Tropical Screech Owl _____  mt

  93. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl _____  ms

  94. Burrowing Owl _____  ms,mt 

  95. Common Potoo _____  ms

  96. Short-tailed Nighthawk _____  ms

  97. Little Nightjar _____  ms

  98. Scissor-tailed Nightjar _____  ms,mt 

  99. Rufous Nightjar _____  mt

  100. Pauraque _____  ms

  101. Swallow-tailed Hummingbird - sp,ms
  102. White-vented Violetear - ms,mt
  103. Black-throated Mango - mt
  104. Ruby Topaz - ms
  105. Glittering-bellied Emerald - ms
  106. White-chinned Sapphire - ms
  107. Gilded Sapphire - ms 
  108. Versicolored Emerald - mt
  109. Horned Sungem - mt 
  110. Blue-crowned Trogon - mt
  111. Ringed Kingfisher - ms
  112. Green Kingfisher - ms
  113. Amazon Kingfisher - ms,mt
  114. Blue-crowned Motmot - mt
  115. Rufous-tailed Jacamar - ms,mt
  116. Swallow-winged Puffbird - mt
  117. White-eared Puffbird - mt
  118. Black-fronted Nunbird - mt  
  119. Toco Toucan - ms,mt
  120. Channel-billed Toucan - mt
  121. Lettered Aracari - mt
  122. Chestnut-eared Aracari - mt
  123. Pale-crested Woodpecker - mt
  124. Campo (or Field) Flicker - ms,mt
  125. Green-barred Woodpecker - ms
  126. White Woodpecker - ms,mt
  127. Yellow-tufted Woodpecker - mt
  128. Little Woodpecker - ms
  129. Lineated Woodpecker - mt
  130. Crimson-crested Woodpecker - ms,mt
  131. White-wedged Piculet - ms
  132. Masked Tityra - mt
  133. Black-crowned Tityra - mt
  134. White-naped Xenopsaris - ms
  135. Green-backed Becard - ms
  136. White-winged Becard - mt 
  137. Black-capped Becard - mt
  138. Crested Becard - mt
  139. Common Tody-Flycatcher - sp,ms
  140. Yellow Tyrannulet - ms
  141. Southern Scrub Flycatcher - mt
  142. Chapada Suiriri - mt
  143. Yellow-bellied Elaenia - ms
  144. Plain-crested Elaenia - mt
  145. Plain Inezia (formerly Plain Tyrannulet) - mt 
  146. Cliff Flycatcher - mt
  147. Tropical Pewee - mt
  148. Gray Monjita - mt
  149. White-rumped Monjita - ms,mt
  150. White Monjita - ms
  151. Black-backed Water Tyrant - ms BL
  152. White-headed Marsh Tyrant - mt
  153. Cattle Tyrant - ms,mt BL
  154. Rufous Casiornis - mt
  155. Eastern Sirystes - mt
  156. Brown-crested Flycatcher - mt
  157. Tropical Kingbird - ms,mt BL
  158. Fork-tailed Flycatcher - ms BL
  159. Social Flycatcher - sp,ms,mt 
  160. Boat-billed Flycatcher - mt
  161. Streaked Flycatcher - mt
  162. Rusty-margined Flycatcher - ms B
  163. Lesser Kiskadee - ms
  164. Great Kiskadee - sp,ms,mt BL
  165. Rufous-winged Antshrike - mt
  166. Great Antshrike - ms
  167. Barred Antshrike - ms  
  168. Planalto Slaty Antshrike - mt
  169. Plain Antvireo - mt
  170. Large-billed Antwren - mt
  171. White-backed Fire-eye - mt
  172. Rufous Hornero - sp,ms,mt BL
  173. Pale-legged Hornero - ms
  174. Pale-breasted Spinetail - ms
  175. Yellow-chinned Spinetail - ms
  176. Rusty-backed Spinetail - ms
  177. Rufous-fronted Thornbird - ms
  178. Greater Thornbird - ms
  179. Gray-chested Cachalote - ms
  180. Russet-mantled Foliage-gleaner - mt
  181. Plain Xenops - mt
  182. Olivaceous Woodcreeper - mt
  183. Great Rufous Woodcreeper - ms
  184. Narrow-billed Woodcreeper - ms,mt
  185. Rufous-browed Peppershrike - mt
  186. "Chivi" Red-eyed Vireo - ms
  187. Ashy-headed Greenlet - mt 
  188. Curl-crested Jay - mt
  189. Plush-crested Jay - ms 
  190. Purplish Jay - ms,mt
  191. White-winged Swallow - ms,mt BL
  192. Brown-chested Martin - ms
  193. Gray-breasted Martin - ms,mt BL
  194. Blue-and-white Swallow - sp
  195. Southern Rough-winged Swallow - ms
  196. Moustached Wren - mt
  197. Buff-breasted Wren - mt
  198. Fawn-breasted Wren - ms
  199. Thrush-like Wren - ms,mt 
  200. "Southern" House Wren - ms
  201. Black-capped Donacobious - ms,mt
  202. Masked Gnatcatcher - ms
  203. Chalk-browed Mockingbird - ms,mt
  204. Rufous-bellied Thrush - sp,ms,mt
  205. Pale-breasted Thrush - ms,mt BL
  206. Yellowish Pipit - ms
  207. Violaceous Euphonia - mt
  208. Purple-throated Euphonia - mt
  209. Thick-billed Euphonia - mt
  210. Southern Yellowthroat - ms
  211. White-bellied Warbler - mt
  212. Crested Oropendola - ms,mt
  213. Yellow-rumped Cacique - mt
  214. Shiny Cowbird - ms,mt
  215. Baywing - ms BL
  216. Giant Cowbird - ms,mt
  217. Unicolored Blackbird - ms
  218. Chopi Blackbird - ms,mt BL
  219. Epaulet Oriole - ms
  220. Orange-backed Troupial - ms

    White-browed Blackbird - ms

    Yellow-rumped Marshbird - ms

    Bobolink - ms

    Bananaquit - sp,ms

    Grassland Sparrow - ms,mt BL

    Rufous-collared Sparrow - sp

    Red-crested Cardinal - ms

    Yellow-billed Cardinal - ms 

    Sayaca Tanager - se,ms,mt BL

    Palm Tanager - ms,mt
  221. Silver-beaked Tanager - mt

    Burnished-buff Tanager - mt

    Red Tanager (formerly part of Hepatic Tanager) - ms

    Orange-headed Tanager - ms 

    White-lined Tanager - ms,mt 

    White-rumped Tanager - mt

    Shrike-like Tanager - mt

    Black-faced Tanager - mt

    Magpie-Tanager - mt

    Swallow-Tanager - mt

    Blue Dacnis - mt

    Blue-black Grassquit - ms,mt

    Plumbeous Seedeater - mt

    Lined Seedeater - ms

    Marsh Seedeater - ms

    Rusty-collared Seedeater - ms,mt

    Double-collared Seedeater - mt

    Tawny-bellied Seedeater - ms

    Capped Seedeater - mt

    Lesser Seed Finch - ms,mt

    Saffron Finch - se,ms,mt BL

    Red Pileated Finch - mt

    Buff-throated Saltator - ms

    Green-winged Saltator - mt

    "Southern" Grayish Saltator - ms

    Black-throated Saltator - mt 

    House Sparrow (BRi) - sp,ms,mt BL


Mammals & Other Wildlife 
during the FONT Nature Tour 
in
Brazil 

in March 2009


List compiled by Armas Hill

Photo at right: 
A JAGUAR
Ours, during this tour, 
was seen after dark, feeding.
 


Dates:

March 4-14


Codes:


(e): classified as endangered
(v): classified as vulnerable

  1. GIANT ANTEATER _____  ms  
    Myrmecophaga tridactyla

  2. Nine-banded Armadillo _____  ms,mt
    Euphractus sexcinctus 

       

  3. Azara's Agouti _____  mt
    Cuniculus paca

  4. Capybara _____  ms
    Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris

  5. Pantanal Cat _____  ms
    Felis braccata

  6. OCELOT (v) _____  ms   
    Felis pardalis  


  7. JAGUAR (v) _____  ms
    Panthera tigris

  8. Crab-eating Fox _____  ms
    Cerdocyon thous

  9. Hoary Fox _____  ms
    Lycalppex vetulus

  10. Neotropical River Otter _____  ms
    Lutra longicaudus

  11. South American Coati _____  ms   
    Nasua nasua

  12. Black Howler Monkey _____  ms,mt
    Alouatta caraya

  13. Brown Tufted Capuchin _____  mt
    Cebus apella

  14. Marsh Deer (v) _____  ms
    Blastocerus dichotomus 
     
  15. Gray (or Brown) Brocket Deer _____  mt
    Mazama gouazoubira  

  16. Red Brocket Deer _____  ms
    Mazama americana

  17. Pampas Deer _____  mt
    Ozotoceros bezoarticus




    Pampas Deer

  18. White-lipped Peccary _____  ms
    Tayassu pecari

  19. Lesser Fishing Bat _____  ms
    Noctilio albiventris

  20. other bats _____ ms,mt 



    Also during the tour:

    only as a road-kill: Southern Tamandua   


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    OTHER WILDLIFE:

  21. Spectacled Caiman _____  ms  (including "baby caimans")
    Caiman crocodilus yacare

  22. Black Tegu _____  ms
    Tupinambus teguixin

  23. toads, lizards, gecko