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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 BL

  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

  221. White-browed Blackbird _____  ms

  222. Yellow-rumped Marshbird _____  ms

  223. Bobolink _____  ms

  224. Bananaquit _____  sp,ms

  225. Grassland Sparrow _____  ms,mt BL

  226. Rufous-collared Sparrow _____  sp

  227. Red-crested Cardinal _____  ms

  228. Yellow-billed Cardinal _____  ms 

  229. Sayaca Tanager _____  se,ms,mt BL

  230. Palm Tanager _____  ms,mt

  231. Silver-beaked Tanager _____  mt

  232. Burnished-buff Tanager _____  mt

  233. Red Tanager (formerly part of Hepatic Tanager) _____  ms

  234. Orange-headed Tanager _____  ms 

  235. White-lined Tanager _____  ms,mt 

  236. White-rumped Tanager _____  mt

  237. Shrike-like Tanager _____  mt

  238. Black-faced Tanager _____  mt

  239. Magpie-Tanager _____  mt

  240. Swallow-Tanager _____  mt

  241. Blue Dacnis _____  mt

  242. Blue-black Grassquit _____  ms,mt

  243. Plumbeous Seedeater _____  mt

  244. Lined Seedeater _____  ms

  245. Marsh Seedeater _____  ms

  246. Rusty-collared Seedeater _____  ms,mt

  247. Double-collared Seedeater _____  mt

  248. Tawny-bellied Seedeater _____  ms

  249. Capped Seedeater _____  mt

  250. Lesser Seed Finch _____  ms,mt

  251. Saffron Finch _____  se,ms,mt BL

  252. Red Pileated Finch _____  mt

  253. Buff-throated Saltator _____  ms

  254. Green-winged Saltator _____  mt

  255. "Southern" Grayish Saltator _____  ms

  256. Black-throated Saltator _____  mt 

  257. House Sparrow (BRi) _____  sp,ms,mt BL


Mammals & Other Wildlife 
during the 
Focus On 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   


    __________________________________________________________________________  


    OTHER WILDLIFE:

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

  22. Black Tegu _____  ms
    Tupinambus teguixin

  23. toads, lizards, gecko