Birds and Other Wildlife
during the Focus On Nature Tour 
in Brazil

in August 2009

Dates:

August 16-25, 2009


This tour in Southeast Brazil.


Codes: 
  
c:    along & near the seacoast, including lower Atlantic Forest 
m:   in the hills & mountains, including higher Atlantic Forest   
v:    in the valleys between the coast and the mountains  



(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


UPPER RIGHT ILLUSTRATION: the GOLDEN-CHEVRONED TANAGER,
one of about 20 species of tanagers that were seen during this tour.
This species is endemic to Brazil, occurring only in the area of the Atlantic Forest.    

Links:

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

Rare & Threatened Birds of Brazil  (with some photos)

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

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

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in Brazil

The following list compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the August 2009 Brazil Tour.


Bird-List:   

1. Brown Tinamou _____  m
   
   
2. Dusky-legged Guan _____  m
   
   
3. White-cheeked Pintail _____  c
   
   
4. Brazilian Teal _____  v
   
   
5. Scarlet Ibis _____  c 
   
   
6. Roseate Spoonbill _____  c
   
   
7. Striated Heron _____  
   
   
8. Cocoi Heron _____  c
   
   
9. Capped Heron _____  v
   
   
10. Whistling Heron _____  v
    
    
11. Western Cattle Egret _____  c
    
    
12. Little Blue Heron _____  c
    
    
13. Snowy Egret _____  c
    
    
14. Great Egret _____  c
    
    
15. Rufescent Tiger-Heron _____  c
    
    
16. Yellow-crowned Night Heron _____  c
    
    
17. Magnificent Frigatebird _____  c
    
    
18. Brown Booby _____  c
    
    
19. Neotropic Cormorant _____  c,v
    
    
20. Black Vulture _____  c,v,m 
    
    
21. Turkey Vulture _____  
    
    
22. Southern Crested Caracara _____  c,v 
    
    
23. Yellow-headed Caracara _____  c,v 
    
    
24. Laughing Falcon _____  c
    
    
25. American Kestrel _____  v
    
    
26. White-tailed Kite _____  v
    
    
27. Bicolored Hawk _____  v
    
    
28. Mantled Hawk (nt) _____  m 
    
    
29. White-necked Hawk (t3) _____  c
    
    
30. Great Black Hawk _____ 
    
    
31. Savanna Hawk _____  c,v
    
    
32. Roadside Hawk _____  c,v
    
    
33. Gray-lined (or Gray) Hawk _____  v 
    
    
34. White-tailed Hawk _____  v
    
    
35. Red-legged Seriema _____  v
    
    
36. Rufous-sided Crake _____  c 
    
    
37. Blackish Rail _____  m
    
    
38. Gray-necked Wood Rail _____  c
    
    
39. Slaty-breasted Wood Rail _____  m
    
    
40. Common Gallinule (or Moorhen) _____  c
    
    
41. Wattled Jacana _____  c
    
    
42. Southern Lapwing _____   c,v
    
    
43. Collared Plover _____  c 
    
    
44. Kelp Gull - c
    
    
45. South American Tern - c
    
    
46. Cayenne Tern - c
    
    
47. Royal Tern - c
    
    
48. Large-billed Tern - c 
    
    
49. Black Skimmer - c
    
    
50. Picazuro Pigeon - c,v.m
    
    
51. Pale-vented Pigeon - c
    
    
52. Common (or Feral) Pigeon (BRi) - c,v
    
    
53. Eared Dove - v
    
    
54. Ruddy Ground-Dove - c,v
    
    
55. Gray-fronted Dove - m
    
    
56. White-tipped Dove - 
    
    
57. White-eyed Parakeet - v
    
    
58. Reddish-bellied Parakeet - m
    
    
59. Blue-winged Parrotlet - c
    
    
60. Plain Parakeet (BRe) - c,v
    
    
61. Scaly-headed Parrot - c
    
    
62. Smooth-billed Ani - c,v
    
    
63. Squirrel Cuckoo - 
    
    
64. Striped Cuckoo - c
    
    
65. Guira Cuckoo - c
    
    
66. Burrowing Owl - c 
    
    
67. Nacunda Nighthawk - c
    
    
68. White-collared Swift - c
    
    
69. Sooty Swift - c
    
    
70. Swallow-tailed Hummingbird - v
    
    
71. Saw-billed Hermit (nt) (BRe) - c
    
    
72. Rufous-breasted Hermit - c
    
    
73. Scale-throated Hermit - m
    
    
74. Black Jacobin - m
    
    
75. White-vented Violetear - v
    
    
76. Black-breasted Plovercrest - m
    
    
77. Fork-tailed Woodnymph - m
    
    
78. Violet-capped Woodnymph - m
    
    
79. White-throated Hummingbird - m
    
    
80. Versicolored Emerald - v
    
    
81. Glittering-throated Emerald - v,m
    
    
82. Brazilian Ruby (BRe) - m
    
    
83. Black-eared Fairy - m
    
    
84. Amazonian White-tailed Trogon - m   
    
    
85. Surucua Trogon - c
    
    
86. Ringed Kingfisher - c
    
    
87. Amazon Kingfisher - c
    
    
88. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher - c
    
    
89. Rufous-capped Motmot - m
    
    
90. Rufous-tailed Jacamar - c
    
    
91. Channel-billed Toucan - c
    
    
92. Green-billed (formerly Red-breasted) Toucan - m
    
    
93. Saffron Toucanet - c
    
    
94. Blond-crested Woodpecker - v
    
    
95. Campo (or Field) Flicker - v
    
    
96. Green-barred Woodpecker - 
    
    
97. White Woodpecker - c
    
    
98. Little Woodpecker - 
    
    
99. Robust Woodpecker - m
    
    
100. White-barred Piculet - c
     
     
101. White-bearded Manakin - c
     
     
102. Blue Manakin - c
     
     
103. Chestnut-crowned Becard - c
     
     
104. Black-and-gold Cotinga  (nt) (BRe) - m
     
     
105. Bare-throated Bellbird  (nt) - c
     
     
106. Sepia-capped Flycatcher - m
     
     
107. Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher - c,m
     
     
108. Rough-legged Tyrannulet -
     
     
109. Gray-capped Tyrannulet (nt) (BRe) - c,m
     
     
110. Yellow-bellied Elaenia - 
     
     
111. Serra do Mar Tyrannulet (nt) (BRe) - m
     
     
112. Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet - m
     
     
113. Eared Pygmy Tyrant - m
     
     
114. Yellow-rumped Myiobius (or Flycatcher) - c
     
     
115. Cliff Flycatcher - m
     
     
116. Gray Monjita - v
     
     
117. White-rumped Monjita - v
     
     
118. Blue-billed Black Tyrant - m
     
     
119. Velvety Black Tyrant (BRe) - m
     
     
120. Crested Black Tyrant - v
     
     
121. Masked Water Tyrant -  
     
     
122. Streamer-tailed Tyrant - v
     
     
123. Long-tailed Tyrant - c
     
     
124. Cattle Tyrant - c
     
     
125. Dusky-capped Flycatcher - m
     
     
126. Brown-crested Flycatcher -
     
     
127. Tropical Kingbird -
     
     
128. Social Flycatcher - c 
     
     
129. Boat-billed Flycatcher -
     
     
130. Great Kiskadee - c,v
     
     
131. Rufous-tailed Attila - c
     
     
132. Gray-hooded Attila (BRe) - c,m
     
     
133. Variable Antshrike - m
     
     
134. Chestnut-backed Antshrike - c
     
     
135. Tufted Antshrike - c  
     
     
136. Spot-breasted Antvireo - m
     
     
137. Plain Antvireo - 
     
     
138. Ferruginous Antbird - c,m
     
     
139. White-shouldered Fire-eye - c
     
     
140. Mouse-colored Tapaculo - m
     
     
141. Rufous-tailed Antthrush - m
     
     
142. Speckle-breasted Antpitta - m
     
     
143. Rufous Hornero - c,v
     
     
144. Band-tailed Hornero - v
     
     
145. Itatiaia Spinetail  (BRe) - m
     
     
146. Rufous-capped Spinetail - c
     
     
147. Pale-breasted Spinetail - c
     
     
148. Spix's Spinetail - c
     
     
149. Sooty-fronted Spinetail - c
     
     
150. Yellow-chinned Spinetail - c
     
     
151. Pallid Spinetail - m
     
     
152. White-browed Foliage-gleaner (nt) - m
     
     
153. Sharp-tailed Treehunter - m
     
     
154. Streaked Xenops - 
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155. Plain-winged Woodcreeper - m
     
     
156. Olivaceous Woodcreeper - m
     
     
157. Scalloped Woodcreeper - m
     
     
158. Lesser Woodcreeper - m
     
     
159. Rufous-browed Peppershrike - m
     
     
160. "Chivi" Red-eyed Vireo - c
     
     
161. Brown-chested Martin - c
     
     
162. Gray-breasted Martin - c,v,m
     
     
163. White-rumped Swallow - c
     
     
164. Blue-and-white Swallow - c,v,m
     
     
165. Southern Rough-winged Swallow - c,v
     
     
166. Long-billed Wren (BRe) - c
     
     
167. "Southern" House Wren - c,m
     
     
168. Chalk-browed Mockingbird - v
     
     
169. White-necked Thrush - m
     
     
170. Rufous-bellied Thrush - c,m
     
     
171. Pale-breasted Thrush - c,m
     
     
172. Yellow-legged Thrush - c
     
     
173. Yellowish Pipit - c
     
     
174. Violaceous Euphonia -
     
     
175. Chestnut-bellied Euphonia - c,m
     
     
176. Blue-naped Chlorophonia - m
     
     
177. Tropical Parula - c
     
     
178. Southern Yellowthroat - c
     
     
179. Stripe-crowned Warbler - c,m (formerly Golden-crowned Warbler)  
     
     
180. White-rimmed Warbler - c,m
     
     
181. Crested Oropendola - c
     
     
182. Red-rumped Cacique - c,m
     
     
183. Shiny Cowbird - v
     
     
184. Chestnut-capped Blackbird - v
     
     
185. Chopi Blackbird - v
     
     
186. White-browed Blackbird - c
     
     
187. Bananaquit - c,v,m
     
     
188. Grassland Sparrow - c
     
     
189. Rufous-collared Sparrow - c,m
     
     
190. Sayaca Tanager - c,m
     
     
191. Azure-shouldered Tanager (nt) (BRe) - c
     
     
192. Golden-chevroned Tanager (BRe) - c,m
     
     
193. Palm Tanager - c,m
     
     
194. Brazilian Tanager - c
     
     
195. Green-headed Tanager - c,m
     
     
196. Red-necked Tanager - c
     
     
197. Brassy-breasted Tanager (BRe) - m
     
     
198. Burnished-buff Tanager - c,m
     
     
199. Fawn-breasted Tanager - c,m
     
     
200. Diademed Tanager - m
     
     
201. Olive-green Tanager (BRe) - m
     
     
202. Ruby-crowned Tanager - c,m
     
     
203. Flame-crested Tanager - c
     
     
204. Black-goggled Tanager - m
     
     
205. Rufous-headed Tanager - c
     
     
206. Orange-headed Tanager - v
     
     
207. Magpie-Tanager - c,m
     
     
208. Swallow-Tanager - c,m
     
     
209. Blue Dacnis - c,m
     
     
210. Green Honeycreeper - c
     
     
211. Bicolored Conebill - c
     
     
212. Chestnut-vented Conebill - v
     
     
213. Blue-black Grassquit - v
     
     
214. Sooty Grassquit - c
     
     
215. Temminck's Seedeater (t3) - m
     
     
216. Lined Seedeater - 
     
     
217. Double-collared Seedeater - c,v,m
     
     
218. Saffron Finch - c,v
     
     
219. Uniform Finch - m
     
     
220. Bay-chested Warbling-Finch (BRe) - m
     
     
221. Red-rumped Warbling-Finch - m
     
     
222. Green-winged Saltator - m
     
     
223. Thick-billed Saltator (nt) - m
     
     
224. Black-throated Grosbeak - m
     
     
225. Common Waxbill (BRi) - c 
     
     
226. House Sparrow (BRi) - c,v

Mammals & Other Wildlife 
during the FONT Nature Tour 
in Brazil 

in August 2009

List compiled by Armas Hill

Photo at right: 
BLACK TUFTED CAPUCHIN 

 


Dates:

August  16-25


Codes:

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