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Birds found during FONT 
Birding & Nature Tours

in Minas Gerais
Brazil


A Minas Gerais, Brazil bird list compiled by Armas Hill
with photos







437 species of birds have been found during FONT tours, since 1992, in Minas Gerais (& adjacent Espiritu Santo). 
During one of Minas Gerais tours, we traveled into Espiritu Santo to see the extremely rare CHERRY-THROATED TANAGER.   


Explanations pertaining to nomenclature (including some recent changes) & taxonomy (subspecies) are in the two-part file "Brazil Birds during FONT Birding & Nature Tours". There's a link below.

Codes:

MN:  in the state of Minas Gerais 
ES:  nearby, in the adjacent state of Espiritu Santo 

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

(e):   species endemic to Brazil
(qe): quasi (or nearly) endemic to Brazil

Photo at upper right:  BRASSY-BREASTED TANAGER, a colorful Brazilian endemic
Photo below:  the BRAZILIAN MERGANSER, one of the rarest of the world's birds, 
has been found during nearly all of the FONT tours in Minas Gerais  (5 out of 6).
This photo was taken in 2006. 
  

 


Links:

Upcoming Brazil Tour Itineraries

Mammals & Other Wildlife during FONT Tours in Brazil

A Photo Gallery of Brazilian Birds & Animals (from our Sep '06 tour)

Birds during FONT Brazil Tours (Part 1: Tinamous to Flycatchers)

Birds during FONT Brazil Tours (Part 2: Antshrikes to Grosbeaks)

Birds during FONT Tours in Mato Grosso  (with photos)

Rare Birds of Brazil
Birds:

  1. Solitary Tinamou (nt) (qe) ______  MN

  2. Little Tinamou ______ MN

  3. Yellow-legged Tinamou (nt) (e) ______ MN

  4. Brown Tinamou ______ MN

  5. Small-billed Tinamou ______ MN

  6. Tataupa Tinamou ______ MN

  7. Red-winged Tinamou ______ MN 

  8. Spotted Nothura ______ MN 

  9. Greater Rhea  (nt) ______ MN




    Greater Rhea photographed during 
    the March 2008 FONT tour in Brazil

  10. Scaled Chachalaca ______ MN

  11. Rusty-margined Guan ______ MN

  12. Dusky-legged Guan ______ MN

  13. Spot-winged Wood Quail ______ MN 

  14. White-faced Whistling Duck ______ MN

  15. Black-bellied Whistling Duck ______ MN

  16. Muscovy Duck ______ MN




    Wild Muscovy Ducks photographed during 
    the March 2008 FONT tour in Brazil

  17. Brazilian Teal ______ MN

  18. BRAZILIAN MERGANSER (t1) (qe) ______ MN  (photo above; note at the end of this list) 

  19. Pied-billed Grebe ______ MN

  20. Least Grebe ______ MN

  21. Wood Stork ______ MN

  22. Buff-necked Ibis ______ MN




    Buff-necked Ibises photographed during the FONT tour in Brazil in March 2008.
         (photo by Marie Gardner)

  23. Green Ibis ______ MN

  24. Bare-faced Ibis ______ MN

  25. Rufescent Tiger Heron ______ MN

  26. Black-crowned Night Heron ______ MN 

  27. Whistling Heron ______  MN

  28. Cattle Egret ______ MN 

  29. Snowy Egret ______ MN

  30. Great Egret ______ MN

  31. Cocoi Heron ______  MN

  32. Neotropic Cormorant ______ MN

  33. Anhinga ______ MN

  34. King Vulture ______  MN

  35. Black Vulture ______ MN ES

  36. Turkey Vulture ______ MN

  37. Southern Crested Caracara ______ MN

  38. Yellow-headed Caracara ______ MN

  39. Laughing Falcon ______ MN

  40. Collared Forest Falcon ______ MN

  41. American Kestrel ______ MN

  42. Bat Falcon ______ MN

  43. Aplomado Falcon ______ MN

  44. Osprey _____ MN

  45. Swallow-tailed Kite ______ MN ES

  46. White-tailed Kite ______ MN

  47. Rufous-thighed Kite ______ MN

  48. Plumbeous Kite _______ MN

  49. Crane Hawk ______ MN

  50. Bicolored Hawk ______ MN 

  51. Gray-bellied Hawk (nt) ______ MN 

  52. Mantled Hawk  (nt) (qe) ______ MN

  53. Great Black Hawk ______ MN 

  54. Crowned Solitary Eagle (t3) ______ MN




    A Crowned Solitary Eagle photographed during the
    March 2008 FONT Brazil Tour in Minas Gerais
         (photo by Marie Gardner)
      
  55. Savanna Hawk ______ MN

  56. Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle ______ MN 

  57. Roadside Hawk ______  MN ES

  58. Short-tailed Hawk ______ MN 

  59. White-tailed Hawk ______ MN

  60. Ornate Hawk-Eagle ______ MN

  61. Black Hawk-Eagle ______ ES

  62. Red-legged Seriema ______ MN




    A Red-legged Seriema photographed during the 
    March 2008 FONT Brazil Tour in Minas Gerais
         (photo by Marie Gardner)
      
  63. Blackish Rail ______ MN

  64. Gray-necked Wood-Rail ______ MN

  65. Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail (qe) ______ MN 

  66. Ash-throated Crake ______ MN 

  67. Rufous-sided Crake ______ MN

  68. Common Moorhen (or Gallinule) ______ MN

  69. Purple Gallinule ______ MN

  70. Limpkin ______ MN

  71. Wattled Jacana ______ MN 

  72. Southern Lapwing ______ MN

  73. Semipalmated Plover ______ MN

  74. Collared Plover _____ MN 

     
  75. Upland Sandpiper ______ MN

  76. Greater Yellowlegs ______ MN

  77. South American Snipe ______ ES

  78. Common (or Feral) Pigeon ______ MN

  79. Picazuro Pigeon ______ MN

  80. Pale-vented Pigeon ______ MN

  81. Plumbeous Pigeon ______ MN

  82. Eared Dove ______ MN ES 

  83. Ruddy Ground Dove ______ MN ES 

  84. Plain-breasted Ground Dove ______ MN

  85. Scaled Dove ______ MN




    A Scaled Dove during the FONT tour in Brazil in March 2008.
         (photo by Marie Gardner)

  86. White-tipped Dove ______ MN ES

     
  87. Gray-fronted Dove ______ MN

  88. Blue-winged Macaw (t3) ______ MN 

  89. White-eyed Parakeet (or Conure) ______ MN

  90. Golden-capped Parakeet (or Conure) (t3) (e) ______ MN 

  91. Peach-fronted Parakeet (or Conure) ______ MN

  92. Blue-winged Parrotlet ______ MN

  93. Plain Parakeet (e) ______ ES

  94. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet ______ MN

  95. Pileated Parrot (nt) (qe) ______ ES

  96. Scaly-headed Parrot ______ MN

  97. Mealy Amazon (or Parrot) ______ MN 

  98. Smooth-billed Ani ______ MN 

  99. Squirrel Cuckoo ______  MN ES

  100. Striped Cuckoo ______  MN

  101. Guira Cuckoo ______  MN ES

  102. Barn Owl ______ MN

  103. Rusty-barred Owl (qe) ______ MN 

  104. Tropical Screech Owl ______ MN

  105. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl ______ MN

  106. Burrowing Owl ______ MN

  107. Short-eared Owl ______ MN

  108. Striped Owl ______ MN

  109. Great Potoo ______ MN

  110. Common Potoo ______ MN

  111. Short-tailed Nighthawk ______ ES

  112. Nacunda Nighthawk ______ MN

  113. Least Nighthawk ______ MN

  114. Pauraque ______ MN

  115. Band-winged Nightjar ______ MN 

  116. Little Nightjar ______ MN

  117. Scissor-tailed Nightjar ______ MN 

  118. Sickle-winged Nightjar (nt) ______ MN

  119. White-collared Swift ______ MN

  120. Biscutate Swift ______ MN 

  121. Great Dusky Swift ______ MN

  122. Ashy-tailed Swift ______ MN

  123. Swallow-tailed Hummingbird ______ MN 

  124. Scale-throated Hermit ______  MN

  125. Dusky-throated Hermit ______  MN ES

  126. Planalto Hermit ______ MN

  127. Cinnamon-throated Hermit ______ MN 

  128. Reddish Hermit ______ MN 

  129. Minute Hermit (e) ______  MN

  130. Gray-breasted Sabrewing ______ MN

  131. Black Jacobin ______ MN

  132. White-vented Violetear ______ MN 




    A White-vented Violetear, photographed during
    the FONT March 2008 tour in Minas Gerais, Brazil

  133. Black-throated Mango ______ MN

  134. Black-breasted Plovercrest ______ MN

  135. Frilled Coquette (e) ______ ES

  136. Black-bellied Thorntail ______ MN 

  137. Ruby Topaz ______ MN

  138. Glittering-bellied Emerald ______ MN 

  139. Fork-tailed Woodnymph ______ MN

  140. Violet-capped Woodnymph ______ MN

  141. Rufous-throated Sapphire ______ MN

  142. White-chinned Sapphire ______ MN

  143. White-throated Hummingbird ______ MN

  144. White-tailed Goldenthroat ______ MN

  145. Versicolored Emerald ______  MN

  146. Glittering-throated Emerald ______ MN

  147. Sapphire-spangled Emerald ______ MN

  148. Sombre Hummingbird (e) ______ MN 

  149. Brazilian Ruby (e) ______ MN ES

  150. Hyacinth Visorbearer (nt) (e) ______ MN

  151. Horned Sungem ______ MN

  152. Stripe-breasted Starthroat (e) ______ MN 

  153. Amethyst Woodstar ______ MN

  154. Amazonian White-tailed Trogon ______ MN 





     A White-tailed Trogon photographed during a FONT tour in Minas Gerais. 
    This "Amazonian White-tailed Trogon" is split from the more-northerly
    "Western White-tailed Trogon".
      
  155. Black-throated Trogon ______ MN

  156. Surucua Trogon (qe) ______ MN

  157. Ringed Kingfisher ______ MN

  158. Green Kingfisher ______ MN

  159. Amazon Kingfisher ______ MN

  160. Rufous-capped Motmot ______ MN 

  161. Three-toed Jacamar (t2) (e) ______ MN 

  162. Rufous-tailed Jacamar ______ MN 

  163. White-eared Puffbird ______ MN 

  164. Spot-backed Puffbird ______ MN

  165. Crescent-chested Puffbird (e) ______ MN 

  166. Toco Toucan ______ MN




    A Toco Toucan photographed during the FONT tour in Minas Gerais, Brazil
    in March 2008
         (photo by Marie Gardner) 

  167. Channel-billed Toucan ______ ES

  168. Red-breasted Toucan (qe) ______ MN ES

  169. Black-necked Aracari ______ MN

  170. Spot-billed Toucanet (qe) ______ ES

  171. Blond-crested Woodpecker ______ MN

  172. Campo (or Field) Flicker ______ MN

  173. Green-barred Woodpecker ______ MN 

  174. Yellow-browed Woodpecker (nt) (qe) ______ MN 

  175. Yellow-fronted Woodpecker (qe) ______ MN

  176. White Woodpecker ______ MN




    5 White Woodpeckers in a tree to their liking,
    during the March 2008 FONT tour in Minas Gerais, Brazil
         (photo by Marie Gardner)
     
  177. Little Woodpecker ______ MN

  178. Yellow-eared Woodpecker (e) ______ MN ES

  179. Lineated Woodpecker ______ ES

  180. White-barred Piculet ______ MN

  181. Pin-tailed Manakin (e) ______ MN

  182. White-bearded Manakin ______ MN

  183. Helmeted Manakin (qe) ______ MN

  184. Blue Manakin ______ MN ES 

  185. Black-tailed Tityra ______ ES

  186. Black-crowned Tityra ______ MN 

  187. Greenish Schiffornis ______ MN ES

  188. Green-backed Becard ______ MN

  189. White-winged Becard ______ MN

  190. Chestnut-crowned Becard ______ MN ES

  191. Sharpbill ______ ES

  192. Swallow-tailed Cotinga (nt) (qe) ______ MN 




    The Swallow-tailed Cotinga
    is a treat during our Brazil tour
    in Minas Gerais.   

  193. Hooded Berryeater (nt) (e) ______ ES

  194. Cinnamon-vented Piha (t3) (e) ______ MN ES

  195. Bare-throated Bellbird (nt)  ______ ES

  196. Red-ruffed Fruitcrow ______ MN

  197. Gray-hooded Flycatcher (qe) ______ MN

  198. Sepia-capped Flycatcher ______ MN ES 

  199. Drab-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant _____ MN ES

  200. Hangnest Tody-Tyrant (nt) (e) ______ MN

  201. Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant (nt) (e) ______ MN

  202. Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant ______ MN

  203. Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher ______ MN

  204. Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher (e) ______ MN 

  205. Common Tody-Flycatcher ______ MN

  206. Planalto Tyrannulet (qe) ______ MN

  207. Greenish Tyrannulet (qe) ______ MN

  208. Rough-legged Tyrannulet ______ MN

  209. Gray-capped Tyrannulet (nt) (e) ______ MN 

  210. Southern Beardless Tyrannulet ______ MN

  211. Mouse-colored Tyrannulet ______ MN

  212. Yellow Tyrannulet ______ MN

  213. Southern Scrub Flycatcher ______ MN 

  214. Campo Suiriri  ______ MN

  215. Gray Elaenia ______ MN

  216. Greenish Elaenia ______ MN 

  217. Yellow-bellied Elaenia ______ MN 

  218. White-crested Elaenia ______ MN

  219. Small-billed Elaenia ______ MN

  220. Highland Elaenia ______ NM

  221. Plain-crested Elaenia ______ MN 

  222. Lesser Elaenia ______ MN

  223. Sooty Tyrannulet ______ MN

  224. White-crested Tyrannulet ______ MN 

  225. Sharp-tailed Grass-Tyrant (nt) ______ MN 

  226. Gray-backed Tachuri (e) (nt) ______ MN 

  227. Southern Bristle Tyrant (nt) (qe) ______ MN

  228. Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet ______ MN 

  229. Bay-ringed Tyrannulet (nt) ______ MN

  230. Yellow-olive Flatbill ______ MN

  231. White-throated Spadebill ______ MN

  232. Black-tailed Myiobius ______ MN

  233. Bran-colored Flycatcher ______ MN

  234. Cliff Flycatcher  ______ MN

     
  235. Fuscous Flycatcher ______ MN

  236. Euler's Flycatcher ______ MN

  237. Tropical Pewee ______ MN

  238. Gray Monjita ______ MN

  239. White-rumped Monjita ______ MN 

  240. Blue-billed Black Tyrant ______ MN ES

  241. Velvety Black Tyrant (e) ______ MN

  242. Crested Black Tyrant ______ MN




    A Crested Black Tyrant during the March 2008 FONT Brazil Tour in Minas Gerais.
    This bird superficially resembles the Phainopepla of western North America,
    and when it flies, like the Phainopepla it has wing on its wings.
     (photo by Marie Gardner)
       
  243. Masked Water Tyrant ______ MN

  244. White-headed Marsh Tyrant ______ MN 

  245. Cock-tailed Tyrant (nt) ______ MN




    A Cock-tailed Tyrant during the 
    March 2008 FONT Brazil Tour in Minas Gerais
    (photo by Marie Gardner)

     
  246. Streamer-tailed Tyrant ______ MN

  247. Yellow-browed Tyrant ______ MN

  248. Cattle Tyrant ______ MN

  249. Long-tailed Tyrant ______ MN

  250. Shear-tailed Gray-Tyrant (nt) ______ MN 

  251. Rufous Casiornis ______ MN

  252. Eastern Sirystes ______ MN ES

  253. Dusky-capped Flycatcher ______ MN

  254. Brown-crested Flycatcher ______ MN

  255. Short-crested Flycatcher ______ MN

  256. Swainson's Flycatcher ______ MN

  257. White-throated Kingbird ______  MN

  258. Tropical Kingbird ______ MN ES

  259. Fork-tailed Flycatcher ______ MN ES

  260. Variegated Flycatcher ______ MN

  261. Crowned Slaty Flycatcher ______ MN 

  262. Boat-billed Flycatcher ______ MN

  263. Streaked Flycatcher ______ MN

  264. Social Flycatcher ______ MN

  265. Piratic Flycatcher ______ MN

  266. Lesser Kiskadee ______ MN

  267. Great Kiskadee ______ MN ES

  268. Gray-hooded Attila (e) ______ MN

  269. Variable Antshrike ______ MN ES

  270. Great Antshrike ______ MN

  271. Rufous-winged Antshrike ______ MN

  272. Chestnut-backed Antshrike ______ MN

  273. Sooretama Slaty Antshrike (e) ______ MN

  274. Planalto Slaty Antshrike (qe)  ______ MN

  275. Giant Antshrike ______ MN

  276. Large-tailed Antshrike (qe) ______ MN

  277. Tufted Antshrike (qe) ______ MN

  278. Cinereous Antshrike ______ MN

  279. Plain Antvireo ______ MN 

  280. Silvery-flanked Antwren (e) ______ MN 

  281. Unicolored Antwren (t3) (e) ______ MN

  282. Black-capped Antwren (nt) ______ MN

  283. Large-billed Antwren (qe) ______  MN

  284. Serra Antwren (nt) (e) ______ MN

  285. Ferruginous Antbird (e) ______ MN

  286. Ochre-rumped Antbird (nt) (e) ______ MN 

  287. Dusky-tailed Antbird ______ MN

  288. Scaled Antbird (e) ______ MN

  289. White-shouldered Fire-eye (qe) ______ MN 

  290. White-bibbed Antbird (e) ______ ES

  291. Rufous Gnateater ______ MN

  292. Mouse-colored Tapaculo (qe) ______ MN 

  293. White-breasted Tapaculo (e) ______ MN 

  294. Brasilia Tapaculo (t3) (e) ______  MN

  295. Cryptic Antthrush (e) ______ MN ES

  296. "Imperial" Variegated Antpitta  ______ MN ES

  297. Speckle-breasted Antpitta (qe) ______ MN 
  298. Campo Miner ______ MN

  299. Rufous Hornero ______ MN ES

  300. Band-tailed Hornero (e) ______ MN

  301. Rufous-capped Spinetail (qe) ______ MN 

  302. Sooty-fronted Spinetail ______ MN

  303. Pale-breasted Spinetail ______ MN

     
  304. Spix's Spinetail ______ MN

  305. Gray-bellied Spinetail (qe) ______ MN 

  306. Yellow-chinned Spinetail ______ MN

  307. Pallid Spinetail (e) ______ MN

  308. Cipo Canastero (t2) (e) ______ MN  (note follows at the end of this list) 

  309. Rufous-fronted Thornbird ______ MN




    A Rufous-fronted Thornbird at its large stick nest,
    photographed during the FONT March 2008 Brazil Tour
     (photo by Marie Gardner)
      
  310. Red-eyed Thornbird (e) ______ MN

  311. Firewood-gatherer ______ MN

  312. White-collared Foliage-gleaner (e) ______ MN ES 

  313. Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner ______ MN

  314. White-browed Foliage-gleaner (nt) (qe) ______ MN 

  315. Black-capped Foliage-gleaner ______ MN

  316. Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner ______ MN

  317. Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner (qe) ______ MN 

  318. White-eyed Foliage-gleaner (qe) ______ MN

  319. Henna-capped Foliage-gleaner (nt) (qe) ______ MN 

  320. Streaked Xenops ______ MN ES

  321. Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper  ______ MN 

  322. Olivaceous Woodcreeper ______ MN

  323. White-throated Woodcreeper (qe) ______ MN ES 

  324. Scaled Woodcreeper (e) ______ MN ES

  325. Lesser Woodcreeper (qe) ______ MN

  326. Narrow-billed Woodcreeper ______ MN

  327. Rufous-browed Peppershrike ______ MN

  328. Red-eyed Vireo ______ NM

  329. Rufous-crowned Greenlet ______ ES

  330. Gray-eyed Greenlet (e) ______ MN

  331. Lemon-chested Greenlet ______ MN

  332. Ashy-headed Greenlet ______ MN

  333. White-naped Jay (e) ______ MN

  334. Curl-crested Jay ______ MN

  335. White-winged Swallow ______ MN 

  336. White-rumped Swallow ______ MN

  337. Brown-chested Martin ______ MN

  338. Gray-breasted Martin ______ MN ES 

  339. Blue-and-white Swallow ______ MN ES

  340. Tawny-headed Swallow ______ MN

  341. Southern Rough-winged Swallow ______ MN 

  342. Barn Swallow ______ MN 

  343. American Cliff Swallow ______ MN 

  344. Moustached Wren ______ MN

  345. Sedge Wren ______ MN

  346. "Southern" House Wren ______ MN ES 

  347. Black-capped Donacobius ______ MN

  348. Chalk-browed Mockingbird ______ MN

  349. Eastern Slaty Thrush ______ MN

  350. Rufous-bellied Thrush ______ MN ES

  351. Pale-breasted Thrush ______ MN ES

  352. Creamy-bellied Thrush ______ MN

  353. Yellowish Pipit ______ MN

  354. Hellmayr's Pipit ______ MN

  355. Ochre-breasted Pipit (t2) ______ MN 

  356. Purple-throated Euphonia ______ MN ES

  357. Violaceous Euphonia ______ MN

  358. Green-chinned Euphonia (nt) ______ MN

  359. Chestnut-bellied Euphonia ______ MN

  360. Blue-naped Chlorophonia ______ MN

  361. Hooded Siskin ______ MN

  362. Southern Yellowthroat ______ MN 

  363. Tropical Parula ______  MN

  364. Stripe-crowned Warbler ______ MN 

  365. Flavescent Warbler ______ MN

  366. White-bellied Warbler ______ MN 

  367. White-striped Warbler (e) ______ MN

  368. Riverbank Warbler ______ MN

  369. Red-rumped Cacique ______ MN

  370. Shiny Cowbird ______ MN ES

  371. Giant Cowbird ______ MN

  372. Baywing ______ MN

  373. Crested Oropendola ______ MN 

  374. Chestnut-capped Blackbird ______ MN 

  375. Unicolored Blackbird ______  MN

  376. Chopi Blackbird ______ MN 

  377. Yellow-rumped Marshbird ______ MN 

  378. White-browed Blackbird ______ MN

  379. Bananaquit ______ MN

  380. Blue Finch (nt) (qe)  ______ MN

  381. Grassland Sparrow ______ MN

  382. Rufous-collared Sparrow ______ MN 

  383. Sayaca Tanager ______ MN 

  384. Azure-shouldered Tanager (nt) (e) ______ MN ES

  385. Golden-chevroned Tanager (e) ______ MN ES

  386. Palm Tanager ______ MN

  387. Silver-beaked Tanager ______ MN 

  388. Green-headed Tanager ______ MN

  389. Gilt-edged Tanager (e) ______ MN

  390. Brassy-breasted Tanager (e) ______ MN 

  391. Yellow-backed Tanager ______ MN

  392. Burnished-buff Tanager ______ MN

  393. Fawn-breasted Tanager ______ MN

  394. Diademed Tanager ______ MN

  395. Red Tanager ______ MN

  396. Olive-green Tanager (e) ______ MN

  397. White-lined Tanager ______ MN

  398. Ruby-crowned Tanager ______ MN

  399. Flame-crested Tanager ______ MN

     
  400. Black-goggled Tanager ______ MN

  401. Guira Tanager ______ MN

  402. Rufous-headed Tanager (e) ______ MN ES 

  403. Orange-headed Tanager ______ MN

  404. White-rumped Tanager (nt) ______ MN




    A White-rumped Tanager photographed during the FONT tour
    in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in March 2008,
    not showing the white rump.
      
  405. Hooded Tanager ______ MN

  406. CHERRY-THROATED TANAGER (t1) (e) ______ ES  (probably the rarest bird ever seen during any FONT tour)

  407. Brown Tanager (nt) (e) ______ ES

  408. Cinnamon Tanager (e) ______ MN 

  409. Magpie Tanager ______ MN ES

  410. Swallow Tanager ______ MN

  411. Blue Dacnis ______ MN

  412. Chestnut-vented Conebill ______ MN 

  413. Blue-black Grassquit ______ MN

  414. Plumbeous Seedeater ______ MN

  415. Lined Seedeater ______ MN

  416. Yellow-bellied (inc. Dubois') Seedeater ______ MN

  417. Double-collared Seedeater ______ MN

  418. Capped Seedeater ______ MN

  419. Saffron Finch ______ MN

  420. Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch ______ MN 

  421. Uniform Finch ______ MN

  422. Coal-crested Finch (nt) ______ MN 

  423. Gray Pileated Finch ______ MN

  424. Pampa Finch ______  MN

  425. Serra Finch (nt) (e) ______ MN 

  426. Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch ______ MN 




    A Wedge-tailed Grass Finch photographed during
    the FONT Tour in Minas Gerais, Brazil in March 2008
         (photo by Marie Gardner)

  427. Black-masked Finch (t3) ______ MN

  428. Bay-chested Warbling Finch (e) ______ MN

  429. Red-rumped Warbling Finch ______ MN

  430. Cinereous Warbling-Finch  (nt) (e) ______ MN

  431. Buff-throated Saltator ______ MN

  432. Green-winged Saltator ______ MN

  433. Black-throated Saltator ______ MN

  434. Black-throated Grosbeak (qe) ______ MN  

  435. Ultramarine Grosbeak ______ MN

  436. Common Waxbill (i) ______ MN

  437. House Sparrow (i) ______ MN

 

Notes:

The very rare BRAZILIAN MERGANSER has been seen during a number of FONT tours: in March 1997, in October 1998,  in August 2002, in October 2003, in September 2006, and in March 2008. Each time, our sightings have been in a remote part of western Minas Gerais State 
Recent estimates have put the population of the species at only about a hundred pairs. Some say, however, that's too high a number. With large territories, and favoring remote areas, the merganser is not usually an easy bird to see.
The range of the bird has included southeast Brazil, northeast Argentina, and adjacent Paraguay. It's probably now extinct in Paraguay, and may be in Argentina (where the population has been critically small). Actually, in the mid-20th Century, the species was thought to be extinct altogether. It was re-found in 1948. Now, just over 50 years later, the bird is still "too close" to extinction.   

The CIPO CANASTERO was discovered only as recently as 1985 in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where it is very localized. When the species was initially found, it was a surprise as all other canasteros occur much further to the west in South America, mostly in Andean habitats. We've seen it during nearly all of our tours in Minas Gerais.