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Birding
& Nature Tours
in South America - 1
in Brazil
in 2008 & 2009
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2008 & 2009, more FONT birding & nature tours in South America are scheduled
to go to Brazil (with links to itineraries & bird-lists etc
below). And other South American tours will be to Argentina & Chile. In Brazil, during 18 years, there have been 42 FONT birding & nature tours in that country, during which cumulatively 1,032 different birds have been seen. Many of these tours have been to the region of Mato Grosso, in south-central Brazil, with some distinctively different areas ranging from the bird-rich wetlands of the "Pantanal" to the dry habitat of the "Cerrado". In the summer of 2008, we'll also be at a place where, during our tours in the past, we've seen Harpy Eagles at a nest. Now, in the spring of '08, the birds are there again! FONT Brazilian birding tours also have been to "Amazonian Forest" locales including the Rio Cristalino near Alta Floresta, a place called "Jardim da Amazonia" ("the Garden of the Amazon"), and the region of Manaus. The
"Atlantic Forest" and other habitats of the
Southeast are also
visited during FONT Brazilian Tours, near the coast and further inland in
Sao Paulo State (either at Itatiaia or Intervales). |
![]() Jabiru, a bird of the Pantanal of Brazil
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Itineraries in 2008 & 2009 (with prices):
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Tour
BR-2
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Tour
BR-3 Aug 9-17, '08 SOUTHEAST |
Tour
BR-4 Oct 5-19, '08 In the states of MINAS GERAIS & RIO GRANDE DO SUL for birds & other nature of inland SE & far-southern Brazil During
this tour we've seen Optional
Extension |
Tour
BR-1 Mar 11-20, '09 |
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Previous Brazil Tour Highlights
Birds during Tours in: |
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Birds in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul,
mostly Egrets & Jabiru Storks,
photographed during our Sep '06 Brazil Tour
It's usually not easy to see an antpitta.
In the 2 photographs there's a female Variegated (or "Imperial") Antpitta
on its nest in the crotch of a tree, in southeastern Brazil.
During a FONT tour in October 2001, as we were walking
along a trail in a section of Atlantic Forest,
we found at eye-level this bird sitting on its nest.
We stood still and enjoyed the rare sight,
and in particular the large antpitta with its big dark eyes.
In the pictures above, the antpitta is looking right at you,
with those eyes on each side of the white on its face.
As we walked away, the bird temporarily left its nest.
We looked, before we left, at its blue eggs.
The "Imperial Antpitta" is the form of the Variegated Antpitta
in the Atlantic Forest. Another form of the species
is in Amazonian Forest.
This description written by Armas Hill;
The photograph by Herbert Cutler (above)
and David Cutler (below).
Harpy Eagle in Mato Grosso, Brazil,
photographed during a FONT tour
by participant, Bill Anderson.
FONT Brazilian birding tours have been led
by Armas Hill (who has birded in Brazil during over 40 visits)
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